Award - 1940 Club

Features

Location	United Kingdom
Queen	Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type	Award medals
Year	1959
Composition	Gilding metal plated silver (.999)
Weight	81.1 g
Diameter	57.3 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Number	N# 557743
References	Fearon# 410.1 Daniel Fearon; 1984. Spink's Catalogue of British Commemorative Medals - 1558 To The Present Day: with valuations. Webb & Bower, Exeter, United Kingdom. , Engstrom# 20b John Eric Engstrom; 1972. The Medallic Portraits of Sir Winston Churchill. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.

Commemorative issue

Ministry of Aircraft Production

Obverse

Facing bust of Winston Churchill slightly left

Script: Latin

Lettering:
1940 CLUB
CHURCHILL
MASTER MEMBER
BEAVERBROOK, PRESIDENT

Engraver: Frank Kovacs

Reverse

Legend, airplane propeller, wreath below

Script: Latin

Lettering:
MINISTRY OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION
"TO WHOM
MUST THE
PRAISE BE GIVEN?"
23RD MARCH 1941

Edge

Script: Latin

Mint

Spink & Son Ltd, London, United Kingdom (1826-date)

Comments

Engstrom: This medal was commissioned by Lord Beaverbrook in honor of Churchill and the other members of the "1940 Club", organized by Beaverbrook for all those who had been close to him during his time as Minister of Aircraft Production, a position he accepted at the urging of his old friend Churchill and in which he serves from 1940 to 1941. The "1940 Club" dined together annually at Claridge's and it was one of the few functions that Churchill attended regularly in his last years. The medals (struck in gold, and in silver gilt) were presented to members of the club by Beaverbrook at the 1959 dinner; the portrait commemorated Churchill's eigthy-fifth birthday.

Issued by William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, London.

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Date			Mintage		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (1959)			2

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Actual silver weight: 2.605 oz

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