ROYAL ENGINEERS – FOWKE MEDAL 1910. 

A bound folio volume of the work of 2nd Lieutenant JOHN WALTER JULIAN RAIKES  (1888-1974) whilst undertaking the construction course at the School of Military Engineering.

The volume containing specifications of the work to be undertaken, manuscript notes, calculations and specifications and also, on stout paper, many fine large folding drawings in pen & ink and watercolour of the W. door of South School, Brompton Barracks, a drainage system, a floor design, house design, a hutment scheme, and a steel bridge design, etc.  Many marked with the examiner’s notes and comments in red ink.

Folio, contemporary full blue morocco lettered in gilt on upper cover, “Fowke Medal 1910. R.E. 2nd Lieutenant J.W.J. Raikes R.E.”

Quote Item No. 10070
Price:  £325.00

*The Fowke Medal was introduced in memory of Francis Fowke by the Institution of Royal Engineers in 1866;  awarded annually to young officers considered to have specially distinguished themselves in the School of Construction (of the School of Military Engineering).