King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

Royal United Services Institute Gold Medal

The Trench Gascoigne Prize Essay Competition dates back to 1874 when the Council of RUSI started a Gold Medal essay competition for Army and Royal Navy Officers. The first essay subject was on forming a reserve for the Army. In 1895 Colonel F C Trench Gascoigne of the Yorkshire Volunteers, veteran of the Gordon Relief expedition, donated a fund for the 'RUSI Gold Medal and Trench Gascoigne Prize Essay' to encourage more officers to write for the RUSI Journal. The donation was in the form of Hull, Barnsley and West Riding Junction Railway and Dock Ordinary Stock. (In 1898 the Chesney Gold Medal Award was also established as an occasional award so in recent years the wording 'Gold Medal' was dropped from the Trench Gascoigne Prize title to enhance the distinction between the two prizes).

    
Gold Medal of the Royal United Services Institute Medal to Major L I Cowper, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Medal awarded in 1924 to Major L.I. Cowper, title of essay:
"Given, that there is maintained at home in peace time, a field Army of five Regular and fourteen Territorial Divisions, with Army Troops: how can they be best organized to provide for expansion which a war on a National Scale will demand?"
Accession Number: KO0782/01