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    This page is all about "medals" but not ordinary medals,

    but those that belonged to one ,

    Petty Officer 

    Dev/204531 William John James. Hawke Battalion 

    Royal Naval Division, again not the normal medals

    like  the  pip squeek & wilfred group,

    an example of which you can see on ,

    the right.   

    These particular medals are split into two groups,

     The first are from the ROYAL NAVAL & MILITARY,

   TOURNAMENT  OLYMPIA ,and were awarded in 1913

   for the SABRE V SABRE competitions, (bayonet)

    one silver and one bronze both 1913 , according to the,

book on the story of the ROYAL TOURNAMENT 

which for some reason just shows the silver one ?

on page 122

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The 2 images below  show the type of events that p.o james,

took part in but he might not be in these particular images

The image below shows HAWKE BATTALIONS,

P.Os Mess at christmas, P.O James is shown ,

as the 2nd man seated starting from the left

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