" Returning to the United Kingdom for duties as an instructor in November 1917
) Naming is officially impressed in small capitals
The medal is officially engraved to "LT
the badge suspended from a diamond-set gold loop
went up the Nile on 14 January 1898
Naval General Service Medal, Private Hale, Rm Buy Now " Returning to the United1 Clasp SYRIA (WILLIAM HALE.). Naming is officially impressed. Very crisp detail, high relief, ribboned, bruised, extremely fine. Accompanied by seven pages of research papers from the National Archives, including copies of his Attestation Paper, Service Records and Discharge Papers. Footnote: William Hale was born in 1809 in Bidford, Alcester, Warwick. He signed his Attestation Paper on September 2, 1831 in Warwick and joined the Royal Marines,