R.M.A. Woolwich and R.M.C. Sandhurst Athletics Prize Medal, bronze, 50mm., the reverse engraved ‘2 Miles. Woolwich. R. K. Bagnall-Wild. 1893.’, good very fine £60-£80

Ralph Kirkby Bagnall-Wild was born on 18 August 1873 and educated at the Hermitage School, Bath, and R.M.C., Woolwich. Appointed to a commission in the Royal Engineers in 1893, he later served as Director of Aeronautical Inspection at the Air Ministry from 1919 to 1921. Advanced Director of Research from 1921-24, he became President of the Institution of Automobile Engineers and Chairman of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Appointed C.M.G. on 3 June 1918, and C.B.E. on 3 June 1919, he ended a distinguished military career in the rank of Brigadier-General and later acted as a Justice of the Peace in Nottinghamshire. He died in 1953.

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