Canada: Lieutenant H.L. Borden Memoria Rifle Shooting Award |
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| Form: | Circular | ||||||||||||
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| By: | Allan Wyon | ||||||||||||
| Date: | c 1900 | ||||||||||||
| Ref: |
Laidlaw: 0754; |
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| Edge: |
Plain. This copper medal stamped: "897". |
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| Obverse: |
Bareheaded bust of Lieutenant Borden in uniform, left. Across on right: “HAROLD / LOTHROP / BORDEN”. Legend: “DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI”. Signed around rim at foot: “ALLAN WYON S.C.”. |
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| Reverse: |
On a central cartouche with maple leaves below: “A FATHER'S TRIBUTE TO / HAROLD LOTHROP BORDEN / LIEUTENANT / ROYAL CANADIAN DRAGOONS / KILLED AT WITPOORT / SOUTH AFRICA / 16 JULY 1900”. Signed: “A. WYON” below. Above, on two concentric ribbons: “(cross of dots) DOMINION . RIFLE . ASSOCIATION (cross of dots) / (cross of dots) CANADA (Cross of dots)”. On a ribbon below: “(cross of dots) PRIZE . FOR . RIFLE . SHOOTING (cross of dots)”. |
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| Notes: |
Comes inside a blue fitted case, lined with white silk and blue velvet. On the outside of the lid in gilt, within a border, a coronet with: "B" below. Lieutenant Harold Lothrop Borden, (1876-1900) was from Canning, Nova Scotia and the only son of Canada's Minister of Defence and Militia, Frederick William Borden. At the outbreak of the Boer War Borden received a commission as lieutenant with the 1st Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles. He was killed at the Battle of Witpoort on 16 July 1900. There is a plaque to Borden and others who died at Witpoort at Braamfontein Cemetery in South Africa where he is buried. This shooting medal was commissioned by Borden'd father as a tribute to his son. This copper medal, believed to be a specimen, was sold for £950; Baldwin's of St. James's Auction 8, 20 Sep 2017, lot 301. |
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