United Kingdom. A Victory Medal, HMS Good Hope, Battle of Coronel, Chile KIA Newly Listed Non magnetic brass core

Non magnetic brass core

followed by a posting in the new year to 'D' Battery

the reverse bearing a raised inscription of “FÜR ARBEIT ZUM SCHÜTZE DEUTSCHLANDS” (“FOR WORK IN THE DEFENCE OF GERMANY”)

light wear to the gilt

A NSKK (National Socialist Motor Corps/Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps) sleeve eagle

United Kingdom. A Victory Medal, HMS Good Hope, Battle of Coronel, Chile KIA Newly Listed Non magnetic brass coreVictory Medal. (236732. A. J. MERRITT. A. B. R. N.) Naming is impressed, fine. Footnote: Able Seaman Albert John Merritt, son of George and Sarah Merritt, of 24, Valnay St., Tooting, London. Merritt was serving aboard HMS Good Hope, a Drake class armored cruiser, that served as the flagship for Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock during the early days of World War I. She was sunk with all hands on November 1, 1914, during the Battle of Coronel off