LIFE SAVING AWARDS
975
ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY, small bronze medal (successful) (T. H. M. Barry, 19th Feby. 1926) with bronze buckle on ribbon,
extremely fine £100-140
T. H. M. Barry, Assistant Steward, S.S. Waimana. ‘At 13.00 hrs. 19th February 1926, in the Caribbean Sea, James Revell fell overboard
on passage to New Zealand in shark infested sea. Barry jumped after him and with aid of a lifebuoy kept him afloat for 45 minutes until
picked up by a boat’ (ref. R.H.S. Case48,610).
976
ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF LIFE FROM FIRE, 3rd type, bronze, reverse
inscribed, ‘Specimen. T. J. Holt Esq. Deputy (Member of Committee)
1851’, unmounted, minor edge bruise, good very fine £160-200
977
ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF LIFE FROM FIRE, 3rd type, white metal, unnamed specimen, unmounted, nearly extremely
fine £50-70
978
LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY, MARINE MEDAL, 3rd type, silver (To Philip O’Brien, for Gallant Service, 23rd
October 1912) extremely fine £140-180
‘Silver Marine Medal, and Certificate of Thanks, to Philip O’Brien for rescuing a man immersed in the River Mersey at Princes Landing
Stage, Liverpool, on the 23rd August, 1912.’ (extracted from 74th Annual Report, year ended 1 July 1913).
979
LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY, GENERAL MEDAL, silver (To Ernest Ellis for Gallant Service, 18th Nov. 1912) with
silver buckle on ribbon, in Oldfields, Liverpool case of issue, extremely fine £150-200
980
HUNDRED OF SALFORD HUMANE SOCIETY, 2nd type, silver (Leslie O. Williams, April 1898) good very fine £60-80
981
Six: Greaser William McMillan, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary, late Railway Pioneer Regiment
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (3296 Pte., Rly.
Pnr. Regt.); 1914-15 STAR (Gsr., M.F.A.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY (Gsr., M.F.A.); MERCANTILE MARINE WAR MEDAL 1914-18
(William McMillan); CORPORATION OF GLASGOW BRAVERY MEDAL, 1st type, silver (William McMillan), with ‘Gallantry’ brooch
bar, some with edge bruising and contact marks, very fine and better (6) £300-350
Private William McMillan, Railway Pioneer Regiment, was discharged as ‘time expired’ on 24 April 1902, aged 21 years. His civilian
trade was given as ‘Mason’. At this time his mother and next-of-kin, lived at 49 Cornwall Street, Glasgow. During the Great War he
served in the Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary and Merchant Navy. He was awarded the Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal on 26
October 1926:
‘Mr William McMillan, 20 Hartfield Street, Townhead, who, on 3rd instant, rescued a boy from drowning in the Forth and Clyde, near
Castle Street’.
Sold with copied discharge paper, 1902 and citation details.
982
CORPORATION OF GLASGOW BRAVERY MEDAL, 2nd type, silver (Patrick D. Canning 1947), hallmarks for Glasgow 1940, lacking
brooch bar, minor edge bruising, good very fine £80-100
Patrick Donnelly Canning, of 843 Gallowgate, Glasgow, was awarded the Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal in silver on 15 April
1947, ‘... for stopping a runaway horse in Gallowgate on 1st Mar. last’.
983
CORPORATION OF GLASGOW BRAVERY MEDAL, 3rd type, 9ct. gold (George Ramsay, 1970), hallmarks for Edinburgh 1965, with
gold brooch bar, in badly damaged Cuthbert, Glasgow case of issue, extremely fine £180-220
Constable George Ramsay, City of Glasgow Police Force, of 48 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, was awarded the Corporation of Glasgow
Bravery Medal on 10 November 1970, ‘... for bravery in rescuing a child from drowning in the Forth and Clyde Canal on 20th Sept.
1970’.
984
LIFE SAVING PLAQUE, 233mm. dia., uniface bronze plaque, depicting a man on a spar of wreckage taking a child held aloft
by a woman submerged in the sea, in the distance, a sailing ship and a ship’s boat (the scene similar to that on the
obverse of the 1st type Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society’s Marine Medal), reverse with hook for hanging, good
very fine £60-80
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