Public Schools Veterans Challenge Trophy, by Elkington, London, obv. engraved, ‘Won by Eton 1908 C. L. Longstaff’; rev. engraved with name, rank and scores of the winning team, including, ‘(Capt) C. L. Longstaff’, 57mm., silver; Charterhouse Shooting Medal, obv. shield, enclosed by a garter bearing the school motto; rev. crossed rifles and oak wreath, ‘For the Best Aggregate Score in Matches’ (Won by Corpl. R. O. G. Masefield, 1920), 53mm., silver, Ffennell Competition Medal for Special Distinction, obv. semi-naked archer; rev. ‘Youth of the Commonwealth The Ffennell Competition, for Special Distinction’ (Gregory Anderson), 51mm., silver, pierced for ring suspension, second with minor edge bruising, good very fine (3) £50-70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Shooting medals from the James N. Spencer Collection.

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First and second medals illustrated.

The Public Schools Veterans Challenge Trophy was founded in 1878.

Cedric Llewellyn Longstaff was born on 17 February 1876, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Llewellyn Wood Longstaff, O.B.E. (1841-1918), of Ridgelands, Wimbeldon. Educated at Eton (Francis Hay Rawlin’s House), 1888-93, he was a member of the shooting VIII in 1893. He then went on to Christ Church, Oxford, gaining a B.A. (Hons) in Jurisprudence in 1897 and a M.A. in 1901. Admitted as a solicitor in 1901, he was deputy registrar of Lichfield and of the Archdeaconries of Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent during 1903-10. During the Boer War he served as a Captain commanding the 1st volunteer service company of the East Surrey Regiment. He was granted the honorary rank of Captain in the Army and was awarded the Queen’s medal with five clasps. In the Great War he served in the 6th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment in France and Flanders. Awarded the T.D. in 1917. He was appointed J.P. for Staffordshire in 1923 and was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Zoological Society.

Robert Ogilvy Gordon Masefield, born 3 July 1904. Attended Charterhouse 1918-22.