Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

National Rifle Association, Ashburton Shield 1861, by Waterlow & Sons Ltd., obv. six-line inscription (name, year and school engraved) within a laurel wreath, ‘N.R.A. Ashburton Shield, Corpl. J. C. Dunkin, 1912, Rugby’; rev. an ancient archer and a rifle volunteer, side by side, dated in field ‘1300, 1500 & 1860’, in exergue, ‘Sit Perpetuum’, 57mm., silver, in Elkington, London case of issue, extremely fine £40-50

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Shooting medals from the James N. Spencer Collection.

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The N.R.A. Ashburton Shield, competed for by major public schools, was first awarded in 1861, when it was won by Rugby.

John Churchill Dunkin was born on 6 March 1895, the only son of the Rev. Henry Dunkin of The Green, Sherborne, Dorset. A scholar at Rugby School, he was a Cadet Officer and in the school rowing VIII during 1910-13, the latter two years as captain. During the Great War he served with the 4th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment and was wounded. Promoted Lieutenant in January 1918, he was latterly appointed a Staff Captain. In 1921 he took a B.A. at St. John’s College, Oxford and was later employed as a Civil Servant on the Board of the Inland Revenue. In 1927 he was appointed Bursar of Rugby School.