medal
case
New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame
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| Object Name: | medal case |
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| Category: | Personal Artifacts |
| Sub-category: | Personal Symbol |
| Discipline: | Artifact |
| Material: | metal leather fibre, velvet |
| Accession Number: | H.F.997.19-1 |
| Period: | WWI |
| Description: | Case exterior is blue leather, interior black velvet and white silk. Holds bronze medal. |
| Narrative: | Won by Wallace Watling when he was overseas serving with the Canadian Army in World War One. Wallace Watling was a all round athlete who excelled in baseball, boxing, basketball, track and field and handball, volleyball and gymnastics, hockey and rugby; he was also a solider, referee, coach, physical director, and mayor of Chatham. |
| Unit-Linear: | in. |
| Quantity: | 1 |
| Number of Components: | 2 |
| Marks/Labels: | Aldershot Command Athletic Association Command Championship stamped in gold on case lid. Inside case lid, gold on white silk is "Vaughtons Ltd. Goldsmiths & Medallists Birmingham". "Aldershot Command Athletic Association" stamped on medal. "Command Rugby Tournament 1917-18 Runners Up Lieut. E. W. Watling" on reverse |
| Institution: |
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| Institution City: | Fredericton |
| Institution Province: | New Brunswick |