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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 627

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (RMA/1279. H. J. Bale, Gunner. R.M.A.), polished, nearly very fine

Henry James Bale was born at St. Paul's, Bristol on 21 July 1863 and enlisted in the Royal Marine Artillery on 21 February 1882. Promoted Gunner, he served aboard a large number of ships including H.M.S. Swift, H.M.S. Orontes, H.M.S. Victor Emmanuel and H.M.S. Hercules. He left the R.M.A. after 12 years' service on 22 February 1894, but re-enlisted on 2 August 1914 and was posted to the repair and depot ship H.M.S. Cyclops at Scapa Flow; it was at Scapa where he would see out much of the Great War guarding the fleet. Admitted to the Royal Hospital Haslar with gout, he was invalided from service in 1918 and issued with a Silver War Badge.

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