• Title
  Medals won by Harold Hardwick for swimming and boxing
• Call number
  R 295/a-m
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1911-1919
• Type of material
  Medals
• Reference code
  423872
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : R 295/d-g, m
  
• Physical Description
  13 medals - 6 cm in diameter or smaller - gold, gold plate, silver, bronze, in presentation boxes
  
• Scope and Content
  a. Amateur Swimming Association, 1911. 440yds Salt Water Championship, 1st prize. 5 mins 40.25 secs [gold]
  b. Germany 1911. 300m Swimming Championship, 1st place, Leipsig [silver]
  c. Germany 1911. 100m Swimming Championship of Munchen Gladbach [silver]
  d. Olympic Games, Stockholm, 1912. Swimming. 1500m free style, 3rd place [bronze]
  e. Olympic Games, Stockholm, 1912. Swimming. 400m freestyle, 3rd place [bronze]
  f. Olympic Games, Stockholm, 1912. Swimming. 4 x 200m teams relay, 1st prize Australasia [gold plate].
  g. Olympic Games, Stockholm, 1912. Competitors commemoration medal [silver]. Box has no lid.
  h. Inter-allied Games, Paris, 1919. 1500m swim, second [bronze]
  i. Inter-Allied Games, Paris, 1919. 800m swim, third [bronze]
  j. Inter-Allied Games, Paris, 1919. Swimming. 800m relay, first Australia [bronze]
  k. Inter-Allied Games, Paris, 1919. Swimming 800m relay, Australia [silver]
  l. Imperial Services Boxing Association championships, May 1919 - heavyweight runner up [bronze]
  m. Inter Theatre of War Championship, 1919, boxing runners up - 1st heavyweight [silver]
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  The bronze medals vary in hue depending on the composition of the copper used in their manufacture. Source: Preservation Dept. SLNSW.
  Certificates relating to medals d-f and h-j are at D 338 (see separate record)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824022
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Island of Jersey" -- handwritten in ink on card inside medal box (a)
  "Amateur Swimming Association 1911" -- embossed on medal box (a)
  "Masonic jeweller & clothier L.J. Flegeltaub, 96 King St. Sydney" -- embossed on medal box (c)
  "Olympiska Spelen I Stockholm 1912" -- embossed on medal box (d-f)
  "2nd place to Norman Ross. Medallion presented by USA Army" -- handwritten in ink on a card inside medal box (h)
  "4 x 200m teams relay. 1st AIF team. Medallion presented by USA Army" -- handwritten in ink on a card inside medal box (j)
  "4 x 200m teams relay. 1st AIF team. Medallion presented by French Minister for War" -- handwritten in ink on card inside medal box (k)
  "Ministere de la Guerre" -- embossed on medal box (k)
• Conservation note
  
  Medal f is tarnished
• Name
  Hardwick, H. H.
  
• Subject
  Medals.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Sport & War
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1016347

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