Service medals
- Description
- These are the miniature service medals of FS Bell, Captain of HMS Exeter during the Battle of the River Plate in 1939. This was the first major naval battle in the Second World War, during which HMS Exeter was severely damaged.
- Accession Loan No.
- 288/1976
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Common Name
- service medals
- Simple Name
- medal
- Full Name
- service medals, miniatures
- Period Classification
- World War II (1939-1945); Modern (1945-)
- Family Group
- Material
- metal; textile
- Collector / Excavator
- Bell, F S, Captain
- Collection Town
- Exeter
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
