shooting medal, skill at arms medal
Accession Number
NAM.1975-09-2-1
Description
Shooting medal awarded to Mr T S Hodges, Canterbury Rifle Volunteers, 1813. Silver with hinging loop suspender. Obverse: Within a raised rim decorated with an inverted wreath of laurel, inscription surrounded by a laurel wreath. Surrounding all, a circlet, whose base is surmounted by a shield charged with the coat of arms of the Province of Canterbury (an Archepiscopal staff in pale ensigned with a cross pattée, surmounted by a pall filimbrated and fringed and charged with four crosses pattée fitchy). Reverse: Within a raised rim, the engraved inscription. At the one o’clock position upon the rim, the hallmark for London 1813-1814.