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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 341

Sold by Order of a Direct Descendant

Pair: Corporal H. W. Oake, Royal Engineers

British War and Victory Medals (171913 Cpl. H. W. Oake. R.E.), nearly extremely fine (2)

Herbert Walter Oake was born at Bedington, Cheshire in 1881 and educated at the Edinburgh College of Art. He served with the Royal Engineers as a despatch rider during the Great War, completing a number of sketches of war scenes. His art became particularly popular in Scotland post-war, and was displayed a number of times at the Royal Scottish Academy, 1922-31 and once at the Royal Academy. As Art Master at King Edward VII's Grammar School, Kings Lynn, he designed the memorial to Sir William Lancaster, donor of the school, which was unveiled by H.R.H. Prince Henry in 1935. Oake died on 10 April 1939; sold with three portrait photographs and a newspaper cutting related to the aforementioned memorial and copied MIC.

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