Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Buckinghamshire, Eton College, a bronze award medal for Tug of War, unsigned [by Birmingham Medal Co], similar, named (G. Akroyd), 39mm. Extremely fine; in official red fitted case with metal nameplate detailing the members of the 1916 Dry Bobs team coached by N.A. Pearson (£30-40)

Provenance:
Glendining Auction, 18 November 1987, lot 47 (part)
P. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 54, 19 June 2002, lot 644 [from C. Eimer November 1987].

Geoffrey Akroyd, 10st 6lb, of Charles Street, Mayfair, London, at Eton 1911-16. Akroyd went to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and served as a Lt in the Royal Scots Greys in France at the end of the Great War. Subsequently he became a stockbroker. In World War 2 he was a Squadron-Leader in the RAF