MISCELLANEOUS 435
PANGBOURNENAUTICAL COLLEGE FOUNDER’SMEDAL, obverse: an attractive scene of a clipper under sail; reverse: within a laurel wreath, ‘Founders’ Medal, The Nautical College Pangbourne’ (Cadet V, G. K. Webster) 45mm., silver, in F. Phillips, Aldershot fitted case of issue, extremely fine £80-100
Ex Spencer Collection, D.N.W. 6 July 2004, lot 951.
Pangbourne Nautical College near Reading was founded in 1917 by two members of the Devitt family, senior partners in the shipping company Devitt & Moore. Their aim was to produce better educated officers for the Merchant Navy. In 1969 the College became a public school and the name was changed to Pangbourne College.
Victor George Kennersley Webster was born in Fairlight, Sussex on 15 December 1925. Living in Sevenoaks, Kent, he entered the College in 1940, leaving in 1943 to join the Merchant Navy. He served as an apprentice to the Anglo Saxon Petroleum Company until 1946. He was subsequently employed by the Port Line Steam Company, Orient Line Ltd and Royal Mail S. & N. Co. Ltd.
With copied British Seaman’s Identity Card, service papers and other research. 436
Three: Sergeant J. H. Robinson, Middlesex Regiment
CITY OF BRISTOL RIFLE VOLUNTEERS MEDAL, obverse: shield with crossed muskets above and scroll below, ‘In Danger Ready’; reverse: laurel wreath, with circumscription, ‘City of Bristol Rifle Volunteers’, centre engraved, ‘Sergt. Instr. J. H. Robinson, 16th Midx. R.V., The Highest Score (Long Enfield Rifle) 200 300 500 600 Yds. Sneyd Park, July 29th 1863’, gold medal, fitted in a gold frame with pin-fitting to reverse, 40mm., 38.7g; 5TH FOOT CROSS, bronze cross, 71 x 66mm., obverse: St. George and dragon; reverse: inscribed, ‘1863 Won by Sergeant S. H. Robinson, 7th Middlesex Administrative Battalion’; PRIZE MEDAL, silver St. Andrew’s Cross with gilt wreath and gilt scroll inscribed, ‘International Volunteers Match’, bearing the date, ‘1864’, unnamed, suspension detached, good very fine and better (3) £400-500
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PRESENTATION ILLUMINATED ADDRESS OF APPRECIATION, dated 24 May 1917, reading, ‘Presented to Eban Morgan Esq. M.E. On the occasion of his departure from Wattstown to take up appointment at The Great Western Collieries, Pontypridd. Dear Sir, We the Workmen, Officials and Residents at Wattstown in general, combine in this effort to demonstrate our good feelings towards you and yours and request your acceptance of the Address, Gold Watch and Chain, together with the accompanying Silver Tea Service as mementoes, and a perpetual token of our appreciation and esteem, for the many and valuable services rendered to all sections of the community. .......... On behalf of the subscribers, John Kane, Richard Lewis, S. C. Clissold, Daniel Phillips, George King, William J. Parry, David Jenkins, John Jones, George Thomas, William Yeoman’, the address set in a large and heavy wooden glazed frame, 84 x 70cm., with chain for hanging on wall, very good condition, attractive £800-1000
The Illuminated Address also features photographs of Mr and Mrs E. Morgan and a photograph of the colliery at Wattstown.
Wattstown (Aberllechau) is a village in the Rhondda Valley. Formerly the site of a colliery, it suffered two mining disasters, one on 18 February 1887 when 30 men and boys were killed and the second on 11 July 1905 when 120 men and boys were killed.
Note: a large and heavy item.
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