Orders, Decorations and Medals

1914-15 Star (61859 Q.M. Sjt., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (61859 W.O. Cl.2, R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (26096F. of W. Q.M. Sjt., R.E.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (60859 Q.M. Sjt., R.E.); School of Military Engineering Fowke Medal, obv. high relief bust of Francis Fowke (No.26096 Corporal B. Salter, R.E., 1899), 57mm., bronze, some with edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and better (6) £160-200

The Fowke’s Medal was established by the officers of the School of Military Engineering, Chatham and awarded in memory of Francis Fowke, as an annual architectural prize, ‘to the officer who specially distinguished himself in the construction course, and also, in bronze, to the non-commissioned officer or sapper who acquired distinction in the Department of Estimating and Construction’. The medal was first awarded in 1872.

Captain Francis Fowke, Royal Engineers and architect (1823-65) was designer of the Museum of Science and Art in Edinburgh; planner of the buildings in the International Exhibition of 1862 and was largely responsible for the design of the Royal Albert Hall, London.