The name on the edge is A. JEFFERYS

This medal was given to the 11 men in the boat that accompanied Burgess on his channel swim on 5th/6th September 1911.Named On the edge to E.A.JEFFRYS. Therefore only 11 medals issued. Information taken from Dix Noonan Webb sale catalogue 25th November 1998 where a similar medal awarded to R.Flood fetched £110.+ Premium. This medal was bought in 2000 for £80 because Burgess was the second man to swim the English Channel 36 years after Capt.Webb. This description is from a book titled Collecting Commemorative Medals By Joseph Edmundson.M.C. F.R.N.S.

The total length of the swimmer's course is estimated at sixty miles. He was accompanied by the Walmer motor-boat " Elsie," having on board Mr H. W. Pearson, Walmer, captain of the boat and pilot of the swim ; Mr A. S. Wauchope Watson ; Mr G. L. M. Fache, engineer ; Mr Robert Flood, Sydenham ; Mr EDWARD A. JEFFERYS, Lewiston Place, Stamford Hill ; Mr W. H. Wyborn, Clerkenwell House, Walmer ; Mr J. Weidman and Mr A. H. Whotwell, Dover Swimming Club ; Mr A. H. Beer, representative of the " Dover Standard " ; and the boatmen, D. Mercer, senior, and D. Mercer, junior. 

T.W.Burgess Cross-channel Swim 1911. From "Collecting Modern Commemorative Medals.

From " The Field," September 7th, 1911. SUCCESSFUL CHANNEL SWIM BY T. W. BURGESS Between 11.15 a.m. on Tuesday last and 9.5o a.m. on Wednesday, T. W. Burgess, a resident in Paris, but a native of Rotherham, Yorkshire, succeeded in swimming the Straits of Dover, and in repeating the feat performed by Captain Webb on August 24 and 25, 1875. It was his sixteenth attempt. It has been proved, both by Captain Webb's feat and by the many unsuccessful en-' deavours that have been made in the past thirty-six years, that a swimmer who is capable of sustaining the effort and the immersion for the requisite time is depend-ent for success, given favourable weather, on good ikirtune in respect of tides. Captain Webb was singularly avoured in being able to make his crossing in a succes-