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Lot

№ 1263

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15 March 2011

Hammer Price:
£70

Royal Academy of Arts, 1910, a plated bronze award medal by B. Mackennal and L.C. Wyon, bust of George V left, rev. the torso Belvedere, edge named (Walter Edmund Troke, for a Set of Architectural Drawings, Dec. 10 1929), 55mm (BHM 4004; E 1916; MJP p.174); Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 1910, a bronze award medal by B. Mackennal, named (Cecil W.J. Roberts, Intermediate Examinations 1923, Theory and Practice of Commerce), 55mm (BHM 4004; E 1917); Completion of the Newcastle Tramways Extension, 1923, a plated bronze medal by Lomax, 51mm (BHM 4180; E 1982); Opening of Lloyd’s New Building, 1928, a bronze medal by F. Bowcher for Spink, 63mm (BHM 4222; E 2009) [4]. Second and last extremely fine, others very fine; second in black case of issue £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Medals From the Collection of David Corrick.

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Lieutenant Walter Edmund Troke, educ. Taunton School, was killed in action on HMS Cromarty, 23 October 1943; the vessel, commanded by Cdr C.G. Palmer, DSC and Bar, VRD, RNZNVR, MIS, 14th Flotilla, was sunk with the loss of five officers and 20 ratings