The Eight Military Leaders by Ron Dutton for Military Gallery London – lead – not issued RD220

The Eight Military Leaders by Ron Dutton for Military Gallery London – lead – not issued RD220. 47.5mm each.

Surname inscribed on the reverse – spelling error on Slim(m)  Sold as a set (8 medals)

Admiral Hawke navy officer and politician, 1759 – defeated the French at Quiberon Bay

Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, Earl of St Vincent, navy officer and politician.  Battle of Cape St. Vincent 1797 and defeat of the Spanish fleet

Duke of Wellington, Napoleonic Wars, Peninsula Wars

Field Marshal Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Forces in World War I

Field Marshal Slim, commander of the fourteenth army in Burma, World War II

Field Marshal Montgomery of Alamein, World War II

Admiral of the Fleet Cunningham, commanded the Royal Navy’s Mediterranean Fleet in World War II

Air Chief Marshal Dowding, Royal Air Force leader during the London Blitz 1940.