shooting medal, skill at arms medal
Accession Number

NAM.1975-09-18-1

Description

Shooting medal awarded to William Jones, Bangor Volunteers, Gwynedd, 1805. Silver, unhallmarked, fixed loop suspender. Design and inscription engraved within a raised rim and upon a plain ground. Obverse: At lower centre, a depiction of the Arms of the corporation of Bangor (gules, on a bend or, guttee-de-poix, a bend wavy azure, thereon a representation of a mace, all between two mullets argent; crest: a griffin couchant). Above the crest the royal cypher ‘GR / III’. Reverse: Inscription.