Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. GV issue 2nd type with 'Coinage Head' (J.39267 (CH.B. 21017) H. V. Platt. A.B. R.F.R.)

Medal(s) Verification: The Royal Fleet Reserve LS&GC medal confirmed as entitled, and the recipient additionally awarded a pair of Great War medals as referenced below:

- British War Medal (Silver issue): ADM 171/112
- Interallied Victory Medal: ADM 171/12
- Royal Fleet Reserve LS&GC Medal: ADM 171/147. Medal was issued to party on 6 February 1933

Recipient served in Russia Barents Sea / White Sea theatre 1916-1917

Henry Victor Platt, son of Henry Freeman Platt (a 'Printer') & Eliza Platt (nee Humphrey), was a native of Battersea, London, England, where he was born on, born in the parish of St Charles, Plymouth, on 8 October 1899. Prior to joining the Royal Navy on Henry had bene employed as a Printer Lithographer. He joined as a Boy 2nd Class at H.M.S. Powerful on 5 May 1915. On being rated Ordinary Seaman he signed a Continuous Service contract for 12 years service on, 8 October 1917. Henry had a most uncommon Great War 'Active Service' serving firstly with the Armed Boarding Steamer H.M.S. Carron, 6 August 1916 to 20 November 1917, that included deployment in the 'Russian' theatre stationed out of the Russian port of Yukanskie (located on the Murman Coast) for service in the Barents Sea /White Sea. His later Great War service saw Henry serving with the Kil-Class Gunboat, H.M.S. Kilferona, between 22 January 1918 to 31 December 1918. Henry Victor Platt is recorded to have died in Surrey, England. sometime during the first quarter of 1972

Royal Navy White Sea Russian Service: During World War I in 1917, the Royal Navy operated out of Yukanskie (Gremikha), a small port on Russia's northern coast, to protect Allied supply convoys heading for Russia. The effort was part of the Allied campaign to support their Russian allies by maintaining a continuous flow of supplies to the Eastern Front. 

The recipients service sheets are extant and accessible at The National Archives

Condition: VF

Code: 25553