Coastal Motor Boat No. 4, associated with Agar's Victoria Cross action, survives at the Imperial War Museum's Duxford site. His Victoria Cross is held separately at the museum in London. Displaying the boat and decoration together would make their historical relationship easier to understand, although the medal's value and security requirements make a loan unlikely. The separation illustrates how a ship, an individual award, and the biography connecting them can be divided across museum collections. The surviving objects give material scale and personal context to Agar's small-boat warfare.
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Agar's boat and Victoria Cross preserve two halves of one story
Coastal Motor Boat No. 4 and Agar's Victoria Cross survive at separate Imperial War Museum sites, dividing the vessel and personal decoration that explain the same action.