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Description: | Awarded to Captain Archibald Frederick Cooper (1885-1975) in 1919. Neck badge. Silver gilt cross patonce the arms on reverse enamelled blue grey. In the centre within a circle enamelled red, with the motto "FOR GOD AND THE EMPIRE" gilt conjoined busts of King George V and Queen Mary. Reverse: The Royal cypher "GRI" within a rope circle. Suspended from a pink ribbon edged grey. In fitted case of issue with spare ribbons. Captain Archibald Frederick Cooper CBE RN died on 13 April 1975. For two decades he had been a Trustee of the Society for Nautical Research, Born in 1885, he became Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty in 1927 and and Deputy Judge Advocate of the Fleet from 1935 to 1946. He supervised the finances of the SNR in exemplary fashion.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | badges orders of chivalry Archibald Frederick Cooper | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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