Military Sports and Shooting Medals from the James N. Spencer Collection

Eastern Command (3), obv. naked athlete, rev. inscribed, ‘Athletic Championships 1921 Tug-of-War (110 Stone) Winner, Sgt. C. Hunt (D.C.M.)’, 39mm., silver, unmounted, in case; another similar, ‘Cross Country 1929, Winning Team, 2nd Bn. Bedfs. & Herts. Regt. L’Cpl. Toates’, 32mm., base silver base metal, ring suspension; Eastern Command School of Instruction, obv. helmeted bust, rev. inscribed, ‘Winner of Light Heavy Weight Boxing Competition Lance Corporal Hutchinson, 4th Gloster Regiment’, 38mm., silver, ring suspension; Southern Command, naked athlete wrestling a python, rev. inscribed, ‘Southern Command Boxing 1923, Officers Light Weight Winner, Lieut. J. W. E. R. Gainher, 2nd Bn. Loyal Regt.’, 38mm., silver, unmounted, edge bruise; another, obv. athlete throwing discus, rev. inscribed, ‘Cross Country Championships 1933 Runners-up, 1st Bn. Y.& L. Regt. L/Cpl. G. Harvey’, 38mm., bronze, unmounted; Scottish Command, obv. lion, rev. inscribed, ‘Boxing, Inter-unit Team 1935/36 Final Winners, D. M. R. McGraw, Bantam Weight’, 39mm., silver base metal, unmounted; Northern Command Cross Country Association (2), silver, one enamelled, named to Sapper G. Barber, 4th N. Bn. Field Co. R.E.; 54th (East Anglian) Division, obv. naked athlete, rev. inscribed, ‘Winners Rifle Competition 1928, 8 Pl. 4th Bn. Suffolk Regt. Lieut. W. G. Angell’, 37mm., silver, unmounted, in case; South Western District, obv. district emblem, rev. wreath and engraved, ‘Rifle Meeting C.S.M. Dunning, 2nd China Cup 1954’, 45mm., bronze, unmounted, good very fine and better (10) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Military Sports and Shooting Medals from the James N. Spencer Collection.

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First, fourth and ninth illustrated.