MEDAL, COMMEMORATIVE

Description: MEDAL AND CASE. SILVER MEDAL'S DIAMETER IS 5.1 CM. FRONT HAS RAISED PORTRAIT OF MALE AND FEMALE. WRITING ON FRONT STATES,"THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE DUKE & DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT". BACK OF MEDALLION IS A RAISED COAT OF ARMS WITH A LION ON THE LEFT AND A HORSE ON THE RIGHT. MARKINGS STATE, "PRESENTED BY H.R.H THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT K.G. GOVERNOR GENERAL CANADA". SECOND PIECE IS COIN CASE, MAROON LEATHERETTE EXTERIOR WITH GREEN VELVET/VELOUR INTERIOR. SILVER CLASP AT FRONT AND HINGE AT REAR OF CASE. CIRCULAR INDENTATION FOR MEDALLION, WITH GREEN RIBBON MEANT TO LIFT COIN OUT OF CASE.

History: NOTE IN THE CASE SAID, "WON BY ME FOR BEST COMPOSITION IN ALBERTA YEAR?", AND SIGNED "BERT RANNARD". ACCORDING TO DONOR HE WAS 13 OR 14 WHEN HE WON THE MEDAL. DECEASED APRIL 20, 1995 AT AGE OF 91. *UPDATE* IN 2014 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF MILITARY OBJECTS, INCLUDING THOSE ASSOCIATED WITH HERBERT RANNARD. RANNARD'S OBITUARY FROM THE APRIL 23, 1995 ISSUE OF THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION. HERBERT RANNARD WAS BORN IN LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND IN 1903. HE GREW UP IN LETHBRIDGE AND WORKED FOR THE CPR IN THE FREIGHT DEPARTMENT. RANNARD MOVED TO VANCOUVER TO WORK AT THE BOEING AIRCRAFT PLANT AT THE START OF WWII, TO BUILD CATALINA AMPHIBIOUS AIRCRAFT AND MITCHELL BOMBERS. AFTER THE WAR RANNARD WORKED AT THE PRECISION INSTRUMENT COMPANY IN VANCOUVER, WHERE HE WAS INVOLVED IN GUN-SMITHING AND FINE INSTRUMENT REPAIR. HE MOVED BACK TO LETHBRIDGE IN 1952 TO MANAGE THE SPORTING GOODS DEPARTMENT OF COUNSUMER'S HARDWARE, WHERE HE WORKED UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 1964. RANNARD WAS A COIN COLLECTOR, MEMBER OF THE LETHBRIDGE MASONIC LODGE, AND PLAYED IN A NUMBER OF LOCAL ORCHESTRAS. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, SEE PERMANENT FILE P19910046001.