NAM.1980-07-198-1

Duncan Medal awarded by Royal Artillery Institution to Capt (later Maj Gen) D R D Fisher, Royal Field Artillery, 1921. Silver. Design within a raised rim on both sides. Obverse: In high relief, a female in Grecian dress, armed with a sword and wearing a spiked and laureated helmet, seated upon a rock facing dexter with her head turned sinister. She holds a scroll with her right hand and rests her left hand on a pole. Behind her, to the sinister, the head of a lion couchant. Reverse: Relief design of inscription within a circular wreath, the dexter half of laurel, the sinister half of oak. The Duncan Medal was awarded annually from 1871 onwards in gold, silver and bronze for Essays on Artillery subjects.