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Auction: 23112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 844

Bombardment of Scarborough Medal 1914, 32mm, bronze, the obverse featuring the Arms of Scarborough upon a central shield between views of the coast, ‘Scarborough still Undismayed’, above, three ships bombarding the coast, the reverse inscribed ‘Bombardment of Scarborough Non Combatants by the German Fleet, Dec. 16th 1914’, about extremely fine

The Yorkshire coastal resort of Scarborough was bombarded by the German battle cruisers Derfflinger and Von der Tann on the night of 15-16 December 1914. Some fifty shots were fired, killing 137 men, women and children and wounding another 592. Four months after the bombardment the ‘Scarborough Mercury’ advertised commemoration medals. The advert used the following text:

‘The Bombardment of Scarborough. An Issue of Commemoration Medals.
We have at considerable cost, had dies prepared by a firm of medallists of high repute in order to issue medals to keep in perpetual memory the bombardment of the town by German ships on the 16th December last.
The medals are of two sizes - one the size of a sixpence, and the other of a half-crown. The small size has been struck in gold, silver, bronze, and aluminium. The large size has been struck in silver, bronze and aluminium. The obverse represents the South Bay, with ships shelling the town. The reverse records the event and date of the same.’

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£110

Starting price
£40