WW1. Pair. Stapley. Merchant Navy. #sherborne Reverse: A female seated instructing

Reverse: A female seated instructing a boy with a key to unlock the prison doors

Otherwise uncirculated

date and mintmark below

Class 10ab

Also included are 17 photocopied pages of research to include personal and service history

WW1. Pair. Stapley. Merchant Navy. #sherborne Reverse: A female seated instructingPair: W. H. Stapley, Merchant Navy late Able Seaman, Royal Navy. Mounted for wear. VF William Henry Stapley was born at Portsmouth on 17 December 1881 and enlisted in the Royal Navy on 7 September 1898 as Boy Class II. Reaching the rank of Able Seaman by 1902 he served until 15 March 1909 with a poor record, having spent no less than five stretches in the cells. By the outbreak of the Great War Stapley was serving with the Merchant Navy.