NAM.1975-09-9-1
Shooting medal awarded to Joseph Lukes by Lt Beaumont, Gravesend Loyal Light Infantry Volunteers, 1804. Silver, silver clip and flat loop suspender, design and inscription within a raised double rim and upon a plain ground on both sides.
Diameter: 42 mm
Obverse, within a laurel wreath: ‘PRIZE MEDAL / Shot for / 16th Septr 1804 by the / GRAVESEND LOYAL / Light Infantry / Volunteers’ Reverse, within a wreath of oak leaves and acorns: ‘THIS MEDAL / given by / LIEUT BEAUMONT / is adjudged to be / Won by / JOSEPH / LUKES’ Reverse, below inscription and on fastening of the wreath, hallmark: London 1804-1805 Maker’s mark, in oblong cartouche: ‘CF’ (faint, Crispin Fuller)