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Harrow School gold Annual medal 1914, named to R.C Masterman, 44mm, 55.8 gm
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Harrow School gold Annual medal 1914, named to R.C Masterman, 44mm, 55.8 gm
拍品描述：
Harrow School gold Annual medal 1914, named to R.C Masterman, 44mm, 55.8 gms, by William Wyon. The fineness of the gold tests at 22ct, obv. bust of Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) and verso reads: 'Hoc Mraemio Josephi Jones nomen et exemplum Harroviensibus commendat non sine lacrymis pater Superstes - Obiit 1862.' included in the original case of issue.
Provenance: R.C Masterman was the only surviving son of the late henry Chauncy Masterman, Solicitor, of Boxmoor, Hertfordshire, and his wife, the Alice May Masterman, he was an exceptional student at Harrow School who won several gold prizes for Latin. When war broke out, Lieutenant Masterman, though still a boy at school enlisted in the Bedfordshire Regiment. In the following December he was discharged with a view to being given a Commission, and, in the interval before being gazetted, he went up to Oxford and won the Harrow Scholarship at Hertford. He was given a Commission in the Royal Lancashire Fusiliers and was sent to Gallipoli, where he acted as Captain. From Gallipoli he was invalided home, but again went back to the Front, this time in France. He was killed in action on July 1st, 1916, at Thiepval.
Provenance: R.C Masterman was the only surviving son of the late henry Chauncy Masterman, Solicitor, of Boxmoor, Hertfordshire, and his wife, the Alice May Masterman, he was an exceptional student at Harrow School who won several gold prizes for Latin. When war broke out, Lieutenant Masterman, though still a boy at school enlisted in the Bedfordshire Regiment. In the following December he was discharged with a view to being given a Commission, and, in the interval before being gazetted, he went up to Oxford and won the Harrow Scholarship at Hertford. He was given a Commission in the Royal Lancashire Fusiliers and was sent to Gallipoli, where he acted as Captain. From Gallipoli he was invalided home, but again went back to the Front, this time in France. He was killed in action on July 1st, 1916, at Thiepval.