Gedge Medal and Prize
The Gedge Medal and Prize was an annual award of a gold medal and books made to junior Supply Officers.
History
Paraphrasing the Navy List of 1957 very lightly, the members of the Royal Naval Accountant Officers' Dining Club subscribed a sum of £260 to institute the prize to be competed for annually by junior Supply Officers.
The award will take the form of a gold medal and a prize of books, the value of the latter being the sum remaining over from the annual interest after deducting the cost of the medal.
The medal commemorated Staff-Paymaster Joseph T. Gedge, R.N., who was killed on 6th August, 1914, when H.M.S. Amphion was sunk by a mine, and who was the first British Officer of all the fighting services to be killed during the 1914-18 war. The Gedge family consented to the use of the name.
The medal and prize was to be awarded annually to the Officer who has passed the examination for the rank of Lieut.(S) at the first attempt and has obtained the highest aggregate of the total maximum marks in these examinations during the current calendar year. Officers granted permanent commissions front the Lower Deck are also eligible for the award. In the event of two or more officers obtaining the same number of marks, the award will be made to the officer who obtains the higher total of marks in the papers " Secretarial and General Work " and " Pay and Cash " combined.
Officers of the Commonwealth Navies who compete at the same examinations as officers of the Royal Navy, will be eligible for the award.
Recipients
Officers who received it were denoted by a suffix of [GM] next to their name in the Navy List.
Year | Recipient | Notes |
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YEAR | Henry Herbert Lyttleton Shewell | |
YEAR | John Garfield Bennett | |
YEAR | Alexander Walter Richards | |
YEAR | Arthur George David Davidson | |
YEAR | James Wallace Maulden | |
YEAR | John Charles | |
YEAR | Basil Kenneth Freedman | |
YEAR | Thomas Charles Sherwin | |
YEAR | Albert Kenneth David Edmunds | |
YEAR | Arthur Brooke Webb | |
YEAR | Peter White | |
YEAR | Peter Derek de Lapere Allen | |
YEAR | Michael Murray | |
YEAR | Walter Cecil Foster Grant-Dalton |
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