Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Woolwich, Sandhurst, and Cranwell Sporting Medals.
A small collection of Woolwich, Sandhurst, and Cranwell Sporting Medals, comprising Woolwich vs Sandhurst Athletics, 51mm, silver, the reverse engraved ‘C. A. Sykes, 1889’; Woolwich vs Sandhurst, 39mm, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Cricket XI 1900 A. M. Ross’; Woolwich vs Sandhurst, 39mm, silver the reverse engraved ‘Gymnastics 1914 won by R.M.A.’ and the edge engraved ‘G. W. T. Coates, Captain’; Woolwich vs Sandhurst, 45mm, silver, the reverse engraved ‘Boxing 1932 Light Winner J. A. Nelson’, in case; Woolwich vs Cranwell, 45mm, silvered, the reverse engraved ‘Boxing 1936 Heavy-Weight Winner J. M. N. Pike’; Sandhurst vs Cranwell, 45mm, silvered, the reverse engraved ‘Boxing 1937 Heavy-Weight Winner J. M. N. Pike’; and Woolwich vs Sandhurst vs Cranwell, 51mm, silver, the reverse engraved ‘Triangular Athletic Contest 1938, 880 Yards 1st, R. D. G. Ramsay’, all unmounted, edge bruising in places, generally very fine and better (7) £140-£180

James N. Spencer Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2004.

Clement Arthur Sykes was born in 1871 and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1889. Promoted Lieutenant in 1893, he served in Uganda during 1898 and was awarded the East and Central Africa Medal with clasp. He was promoted Captain in 1900 and served during the Boer War being awarded the Queen’s medal with four clasps, the King’s medal with two clasps, and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901). In the early months of the Great War he was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel. For his wartime services he was awarded the C.M.G. in 1918 and the D.S.O. (London Gazette 4 June 1917) and was five times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 5 April 1916, 4 January 1917, 18 May 1917, 11 December 1917 and 20 May 1918). He retired with the rank of Brigadier-General and died in 1937.