Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

London, Midland & Scottish Railway General Strike Medal 1926, by E. Gillick, 51mm, bronze, the obverse featuring Britannia seated left holding laurel branch and shield, with the emblems of England, Wales, and Scotland above, and the inscription ‘For Service in National Emergency May 1926’ to side, the reverse showing three females holding up two railway locomotives, with the inscription ‘Largitas Muneris Salus Reipublicae’ below, unnamed as issued, extremely fine £30-£40

Referenced in British Historical Medals 4210; Eimer 2003.

These medals were struck by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company for presentation to those volunteers who had given service to the company during the General Strike, 3-12 May 1926, and were presented together with an accompanying letter of thanks. The initial letters of the Latin inscription on the reverse (which translates as ‘The immensity of the task, the well-being of the country’) spells out L.M.S.R.

Sold with a General Strike Special Constable’s Certificate of thanks, signed in facsimile by the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Home Secretary W. Joynson Hicks, dated Downing Street, May 1926, and named to Special Constable Thomas Huntington, Lancashire Special Constabulary.