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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 309

Three: Private W. H. Tantony, Royal Marines Light Infantry

1914-15 Star (PO. 7071 Pte. W. H. Tantony, R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (PO. 7071 Pte. W. H. Tantony, R.M.L.I.), the first with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine (3)

William Harry Tantony was born in London on 5 July 1875 and joined the Royal Marines Light Infantry in October 1893, when he was drafted to the Portsmouth Division. He subsequently served as a Bluejacket at the relief of Pekin in the Boxer Rebellion (Medal & clasp), and likewise in the Natal operations in the Boer War (Queen's Medal & clasp).

Having then been discharged in March 1905, when he enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve, he was recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 and joined the armed merchant cruiser H.M.S. Armadale Castle. He remained similarly employed until coming ashore in May 1916 and he was finally demobilised in February 1919; sold with copied service record.

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