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Alec Stansell · JA Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 24 Location: Wellfleet MA

I just found this picture on my computer. It's of a camp "Military Drill" award, 1916. I copied the picture from an online auction several years ago. Thought you might enjoy seeing it. Cheers, Alec

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David Bentley · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:47 am Post subject: Camp Award

What a great find!! Thanks for posting this picture.

Obviously, the Award had a practical use in that the winner could use it when drinking hot chocolate on those nippy August mornings.

Do you have the award, or only this picture? This is something I could be intertested in chasing down.
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Mike Freeland · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 5:23 pm Post subject:

Wow! That is neat! I'd never seen those before.

Hot Chocolate? Great way to burn your lips clean off. Bug juice, maybe. Maybe.

Edit:

Hey Dave, lookee here:

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/9357614

It's still out there. I did a google search on Military drill award wyanoke, and this came up, second to Dave Ayars' notes on an old camp catalogue. I didn't look too close - I didn't see whether the auction is still active or not.

It's amazing the trail Wyanoke has left behind. It's getting harder and harder to follow, but it's still there.
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'58-J-14 H. Peavy '59-J-11 G. Wood, C. Duncan
'60-S-8 R. Leavitt, D. Hemphill '61-S-1 E. Slocum
'62-JA-1 H. Dunbar '63-C-2 (JC)
'64-C-5, (JC) Councilor
'65-C-9 '66 - '72-J-8
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Alec Stansell · JA Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 24 Location: Wellfleet MA

Gee Mike - how about that! When I first saw the stein it was on ebay, and didn't bring nearly 180. Evidently whoever bought it "flipped it" at Fox auctions (which appears to be in CA.!) and made a tidy profit. I still search the word Wyanoke on ebay pretty regularly. It's usually just postcards. Alec
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73: J-4 (Bob Vaughan)
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