LIFE SAVING AWARDS
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CORPORATION OF GLASGOW BRAVERY MEDAL, 3rd type, 9ct. gold (Michael Riley 1971) hallmarks for Edinburgh 1971, with gold
brooch bar, extremely fine £180-220
Michael Riley, of 225 Provanmill Road, Glasgow, was awarded the Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal on 20 June 1972. Michael
Riley, together with Sergeant Matthew Steel, City of Glasgow Police Force and Constable William M’Keick, Stirling and Clackmannan
Police Force, were awarded ‘for bravery in rescuing persons from a fire on 17th November, 1971.’
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U.S.A. TREASURY DEPARTMENT LIFESAVING MEDAL (2) facsimile 1st and 2nd Class medals, in base gilt and silver metals,
unnamed, both with ‘eagle’ suspensions, extremely fine (2) £80-100
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R.S.P.C.A. MEDAL FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE TO ANIMALS, silver, engraved on
reverse, ‘The Lord O’Hagan’, in case of issue, the lid inscribed, ‘The
Lord O’Hagan’, claw tightened, extremely fine £100-140
‘The Lord O’Hagan, for eminent services in connection with the passing into law
of the Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933’ (Ref. R.S.P.A. Annual Report 1934).
Maurice Herbert Towneley-O’Hagan was born on 20 February 1882, a son of the
1st Baron O’Hagan. Educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge,
gaining a M.A. , he succeeded his elder brother as 3rd Baron O’Hagan in 1900.
Was Assistant Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, 1906-07, and
Lord-in-Waiting to the King, 1907-10. Served in the Great War as a Major in the
Essex R.H.A., being invalided in 1918. A Honorary Colonel of the 6th Battalion
Essex Regiment; he served in the Second World War as a Lieutenant in the 9th
Forest Battalion Hampshire Home Guard.
Served as a J.P. and D.L. for Essex and J.P. for Hampshire. A member of numerous committees, including: Chairman of the Central
Chamber of Agriculture, 1929; Member of the National Executive of the British Red Cross Society and V.A.D. Council; President of the
British Dairy Farmers’ Association; and Member of the Ecclesiatical Committee of Parliament, 1920-32 and 1943. Was in receipt of the
Spanish Order of Isabella the Catholic, Grand Cross and British Jubilee 1935. Latterly living at Little Salterns, Beaulieu, Hampshire; he
died on 18 December 1961.
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R.S.P.C.A. QUEEN VICTORIA MEDAL, for meritorious service, silver (John
Nelson, 1939) in Spink, London case, lid inscribed, ‘John Nelson Esq.
1939’, extremely fine £70-90
‘Awards for Meritorious Service to the Animal Welfare Cause, Silver Medals were
awarded to ..... Mr and Mrs John Nelson, on the occasion of their golden
wedding, for fifty-two years’ service, especially among children’ (Ref. R.S.P.C.A.
Annual Report, 1939).
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NATIONAL CANINE DEFENCE LEAGUE MEDAL, bronze (Presented to “Grissel” for
saving a child from drowning 1912) complete with brooch bar, good
very fine £200-250
In A Dog is for Life, Celebrating the first 100 years of the National Canine
Defence League, by Peter Ballard, is a photograph of the sheep dog ‘Grissel’ and
its owner, with the caption, ‘Dr St. Vincent-Ryan and Grissel, winner of the
League’s medal in 1913 for rescuing a 31/2 year-old boy from a pond in
Wansworth, London’. With a photocopy of the illustration.
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