Baldwin & Sons
Auction 101 28 September 2016
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS BY SUBJECT, Music, The Royal Military School of Music, Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, by Charles Bell Birch (1832-1893), awarded 1912, to Horace Edwin Dowell, LRAM, arms of the company, rev Muse of music seated with lyre, named on edge, 55mm, in case of issue with companion miniature, 23.5mm, this with suspender and ribbon. Both extremely fine though edge scratches on first, the result of attempts to remove medal from case. (2)
A newspaper cutting about the award give biographical details of Dowell. Born 1878, he enlisted 1894 as 'boy' in North Staffordshire Regt and served three years in South Africa, then Portsmouth Artillery. After this award he was appointed Bandmaster of the Cameronians (his father and brother were both Bandmasters in the Royal Marines). Since 1908 the Silver Medal has been, and still is, awarded annually to a Student Bandmaster of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall.
Estimate: £120-150
A newspaper cutting about the award give biographical details of Dowell. Born 1878, he enlisted 1894 as 'boy' in North Staffordshire Regt and served three years in South Africa, then Portsmouth Artillery. After this award he was appointed Bandmaster of the Cameronians (his father and brother were both Bandmasters in the Royal Marines). Since 1908 the Silver Medal has been, and still is, awarded annually to a Student Bandmaster of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall.
Estimate: £120-150