Westaway Medal for Merit, Drybrook School (General)

by HarryBrook , Friday, November 16, 2012, 19:47 (4392 days ago)

When Alderman Richard Ernest Westaway, O.B.E., J.P., of Belle Vue Road, Cinderford died on 22 September 1950 he directed in his will that "a silver medal should be provided for the most meritorious scholar at Drybrook School as long as the present school is open and only during the life of my son Edward Victor Westaway." The medal was presented annually to the most meritorious pupil leaving at the end of the school year at age 11.
Edward Victor Westaway died in Cheltenham in 1971 Q2. Therefore it would appear to follow that the medal was presented from 1951 to 1970 inclusive.
I have sufficient Westaway family history but wish to establish a roll of the winners of the Westaway Medal for Merit. I am aware of the 1956 and 1957 winners.
There are no catalogued records for Drybrook Primary School, at Gloucestershire Archives, for the relevant years; and there are no reports of a school prize giving in the Dean Forest Mercury for the early 1950's.