Gold Medal For The Shooting Down Archive Honor Cross 1914-18 with Swords

Honor Cross 1914-18 with Swords

all of which he has carried out with great success

without clasp

exhibiting light crazing

Gold Medal For The Shooting Down Archive Honor Cross 1914-18 with SwordsOF ZEPPELIN "L15" ; the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Sir Charles Wakefield? s Gold Medal for the Shooting Down of Zeppelin ? L15? (Gunr. J. Young), hallmarks for Birmingham 1916, in Mappin & Webb, London case of issue, extremely fine. These gold medals were awarded as the result of a bounty of ? 500 offered by Sir Charles Wakefield to the first gun crew to shoot down a Zeppelin on domestic soil. Due to the fact that a number of gun crews were