shooting medal, skill at arms medal
Accession Number
NAM.1984-06-137-1
Description
Shooting medal, 1930 (c). Obverse: within a raised rim, the following design in relief: an antelope's head caboshed surrounded by a frosted scroll bearing the burnished title, 'Gold Coast Forces Reserve'. Reverse: in relief, a depiction of an arquebusier facing sinister, firing a musket. In the distance, sinister, a fortress on a hill. Below in an exergue to the dexter, the maker's name, 'Phillips' and to the sinister the address, 'Aldershot'. One of three shooting medals issued by the Gold Coast Forces Reserve, 1930 (c).