A rare and historic 9ct. gold commemorative medal for the Daily Telegraph 'Titanic Fund' football match Tottenham Hotspur v Woolwich Arsenal 29th Apri

A rare and historic 9ct. gold commemorative medal for the Daily Telegraph 'Titanic Fund' football match Tottenham Hotspur v Woolwich Arsenal 29th April 1912, the obverse engraved with the initials TH (Tottenham Hotspur), the reverse inscribed TITANIC, 1911-12 The Daily Telegraph 'Titanic Fund' football match was played at The Stadium, Shepherd's Bush, also known as Park Royal, to help raise money for the families of the disaster and ended in a 3-0 victory for Woolwich Arsenal over their neighbours Tottenham Hotspur. The match was organised with remarkable speed occurring just a little over a fortnight after the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the waters of the Newfoundland Banks shortly before midnight on Sunday 14th April 1912, resulting in the loss of about 1,500 lives. The original recipient of the medal is unknown but it later became the property of the Spurs player William Hawkins (known as Fred by his family) who played at White Hart Lane during the Great War period. After his football career , Hawkins became a bookmaker's runner in the Tottenham and Edmonton area of north London. By family repute he acquired the medal in lieu of a gambling debt from a former Spurs team-mate who played in the Titanic Match.