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2nd prize silver medal. Awarded to William Jarman, as the 2nd best of the new recruits of the 4th Bn, C Coy, The Buffs Regiment, 30 Jan 1913. Cross surmounted by a crown, with lions between the arms of the cross and a central medallion within a wreath, illustrating a cannon. On the 25th May 1912 a recruiting drive was held by the 4th Bn, C Coy, The Buffs Regiment at Margate Hippodrome, resulting in the addition of 55 recruits. At a meeting there on 30 Jan 1913, the Mayor A Leon Abutt, J P Esq, presented a gold, silver and bronze medal to the best of those recruits and 46 medallions to the remaining 46 others, 6 were found medically unfit. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.