Dains medal
2) The Dains Medal
In 1932 the endowment was taken over by another parent Mr Dains and continued as a shooting prize. In the 1980s it was reconstituted as an award to “a cadet who had risen to senior NCO rank over a period of years and had retained that position by hard work, and had given outstanding service above and beyond the normal expectations of anyone holding senior rank.”
The Dains medal was again in bronze with the School arms to the obverse. The reverse of was now engraved simply with the recipient and year. Unlike the Wrightson medal the Dains medal could from the 1980s be awarded to one, more or no recipient each year (and all three scenarios have occured). The Dains endowment was later exhausted and the medal is no longer awarded.
I have a register of recipients from across the years but as you can imagine with lots of gaps. If anyone is aware of an examples out there in your collection or elsewhere I'd love to add the recipient name to my register.
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