Peace Medals
Reader's Letters & Queries: NarrowBoat, Autumn 2014
Your photograph on page 29 (Summer 2014 NB) shows the John Dickinson & Co peace medal. I was interested to learn that this was given to contractors as well as employees. We have several in our collection at the Apsley Paper Trail where we explain that the dies for the medals were not completed until after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28th June 1919. The medals were then struck in time for distribution to eligible people for the first Peace Day on 19th July 1919 when there were celebrations across the nation. The other side of the coin shows a flying dove holding a sprig of olive with the word ‘PEACE’ and the date. Michael Stanyon, Volunteer Archivist, The Apsley Paper Trail…
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