Ww1 & 2 Group Rn & No3 Wing Rnas Dunkirk Ww1 . William Henry Hart . Hackney / Walthamstow. Died 1948.

A rather nice grouping of medals and ephemera documenting one mans service during both world wars .

Ww1 Trio swing mounted as worn.

1915 star L 6324 w h Hart b svt rn .

Bwm and victory L 6324 w h Hart os 2 rn .

1939 star , Defence and War Medals unnamed and unworn.

Ww1 I’d tag named to recipient .

Condolence slip confirming ww2 entitlement.

Transmittal box named to his widow , Mrs a m Hart, 44 Woodville Road, Walthamstow, London, e17. on rear in pencil dna wills 2315/49.

A tin of various naval buttons ,a rnoca ( royal navy old comrades association) badge .

A ww2 new testament.

William henry Hart was born 31st July 1898 at Hackney in London.

A printers boy he enlisted in the Royal Navy as a boy servant in February 1915 .

He served hms Mars, swiftsure & president ii before being attached to Royal naval Air Service in no3 Wing at Dunkirk in France July 1916 Service as an officers batman .

He was attached to raf after they were formed in 1918 to returned to rn before his discharge in 1920 .

Reenlisted 25th September 1939 at serving as leading steward hms pembroke , hms eaglet & hms benbow he was later discharged unfit for service March 1946 .

He sadly died 13th July 1948 aged just short of his 50th birthday .living at 67 melville Road, Walthamstow leaving his widow Agnes just £220-18s-3d in his probate .

Worthy of futhur research into hos death and also his service .