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Victory Medal 1914-18
Obverse: Winged Victory standing (front), a palm branch in her right hand, her left arm outstretched. Reverse: Within a laurel garland, Inscription: 'THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILIZATION 1914-1919'. Inscription on edge: Inscription on edge: '120858 A.P. FISH. D.H. R.N.R.' On bar with two other medals. Fitted with a ring and watered silk ribbon of rainbow hues.
Arthur Price Fish (1898-1987) was born in Birkenhead and was resident in Great Yarmouth at the start of the Great War where his parents Benjamin and Mary Catherine (maiden name Price) ran a chemist's shop. He served in the RNR from 21 June 1915 as a boy cook and deck hand on trawlers and drifters operating as minesweepers. During the 1930s he had moved to South East London. He became a warder at the National Maritime Museum and died in Greenwich.
Arthur Price Fish (1898-1987) was born in Birkenhead and was resident in Great Yarmouth at the start of the Great War where his parents Benjamin and Mary Catherine (maiden name Price) ran a chemist's shop. He served in the RNR from 21 June 1915 as a boy cook and deck hand on trawlers and drifters operating as minesweepers. During the 1930s he had moved to South East London. He became a warder at the National Maritime Museum and died in Greenwich.
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Object Details
| ID: | MED1183 |
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| Collection: | Coins and medals |
| Type: | War medal |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | McMillan, William |
| Events: | World War I, 1914-1918 |
| Date made: | 1919 |
| People: | Fish, Arthur Price |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 36 mm |