NAM.2005-12-49-1

Prize medal for Electrical Engineering 1911. Silver prize medal, the Armstrong Memorial Prize, by Frank Bowcher, 1902. Awarded annually to the gentleman cadet most proficient in electrical engineering at the Royal Military Academy. Awarded to Vivien Augustine Cairns Clery, later Lieutenant Colonel, MC, Royal Engineers, 1911. Obverse, within a beaded rim, in relief, a portrait bust of Col R Y Armstrong, CB, head and shoulders facing half left, surrounded by the inscription, 'COL: R.Y. ARMSTRONG. C.B. ROYAL ENGINEERS'. Reverse, within a beaded rim an upright hand issuing from a turreted crown, holding a winged thunderbolt. Below, the inscription, 'ARMSTRONG MEMORIAL PRIZE'. Rim, engraved, 'V.A.C. CLERY. JULY. 1911'.