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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 394

(x) The mounted group of four miniature dress medals worn by Major B. D. Rudd, M.C., Tank Corps, the South African hero of the 1920 Olympics

Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, mounted as worn by Spink & Son, London, good very fine (4)


PROVENANCE:
Kaplan, Johannesburg, September 2012, Lot 268.

Bevil Gordon D'Urban Rudd was born in Kimberley in October 1894. Educated at St. Andrew's, Grahamstown, he excelled in athletics from a young age and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford.

He subsequently served with distinction in the Tank Corps in the Great War, winning the M.C. in February 1918. But he would make his greatest mark at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, bringing home three medals - a Gold in the 400m, Silver in the 4 x 400m relay and Bronze in the 800m, an achievement that has yet to be eclipsed by another South African athlete.

Following his marriage in 1926, a long publishing career would see him serve as editor of the Daily Telegraph for over a decade. Bevil died on 2 February 1953; sold with the recipient's calling card, in the name of 'Major Bevil Rudd, M.C., The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, S.W.1.', and copied research.


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Sold for
£260