GOLD CUP COMMEMORATES NAVY'S PART AT DUNKIRK. MAY 1941, ADMIRALTY. A CEREMONY TOOK PLACE AT THE ADMIRALTY WHEN A GOLD CUP WAS PRESENTED BY LORD QUEENBOROUGH, PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ST GEORGE, AND LORD WARDINGTON, PRIME WARDEN OF THE GOLDSMITHS COMPANY, TO VICE ADMIRAL J H D CUNNINGHAM, CB, MVO, FOURTH SEA LORD, AND SIR J SIDNEY BARNES DEPUTY SECRETARY OF THE ADMIRALTY, REPRESENTING THE BOARD OF THE ADMIRALTY. THE CUP WAS PUT UP AT AUCTION AT CHRISTIES IN AID OF THE RED CROSS, A CONDITION OF THE SALE BEING THAT THE CUP SHOULD, AFTER THE SALE BE PRESENTED TO THE ADMIRALTY AND THAT IT
GOLD CUP COMMEMORATES NAVY'S PART AT DUNKIRK. MAY 1941, ADMIRALTY. A CEREMONY TOOK PLACE AT THE ADMIRALTY WHEN A GOLD CUP WAS PRESENTED BY LORD QUEENBOROUGH, PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ST GEORGE, AND LORD WARDINGTON, PRIME WARDEN OF THE GOLDSMITHS COMPANY, TO VICE ADMIRAL J H D CUNNINGHAM, CB, MVO, FOURTH SEA LORD, AND SIR J SIDNEY BARNES DEPUTY SECRETARY OF THE ADMIRALTY, REPRESENTING THE BOARD OF THE ADMIRALTY. THE CUP WAS PUT UP AT AUCTION AT CHRISTIES IN AID OF THE RED CROSS, A CONDITION OF THE SALE BEING THAT THE CUP SHOULD, AFTER THE SALE BE PRESENTED TO THE ADMIRALTY AND THAT IT SHOULD BE KEPT IN THE NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM AT GREENWICH TO COMMEMORATE THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE BRITISH FORCES FROM DUNKIRK. - The Cup
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