LIFE SAVING AWARDS 402 Six: Temporary Sub-Lieutenant E. E. Lusher, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR, clasp, France and Germany; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, M.I.D. oakleaf, these unnamed; ROYALHUMANE SOCIETY, small bronze medal (successful) (T/Sub Lieut. Edwin E. Lusher, R.N.V.R. 24th June 1944) with bronze buckle on ribbon; ROYAL LIFE SAVING SOCIETYMEDAL, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘E. E. Lusher, Sept. 1928’, with detached ribbon bearing ‘1933’ bar and ‘R.L.S.S.’ brooch bar; together with mounted miniature dress medals of the first six, nearly extremely fine (13)
£160-200
Temporary Sub-Lieutenant Edwin Ernest Lusher, R.N.V.R., serving aboard the cruiser H.M.S. Arethusa, was awarded the Royal Humane Society Medal in bronze for successfully effecting a rescue off the French coast on 24 June 1944. During the Normandy Landings, the ship had been part of the bombarding force supporting the landing at Sword Beach. On 25 June 1944, while steaming off the landing beaches the ship was damaged when an enemy aircraft dropped a mine nearby. The mine exploded in its wake causing the ship internal damage.
Seedie’s Roll lists the award of a mention in despatches to Temporary Sub Lieutenant Lusher, R.N.V.R., H.M.S. Arethusa, for a rescue involving a landing craft off the French coast, 24 June 1944 but provides no London Gazette date.
403 404 ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY, small, bronze (successful), erased naming, complete with bronze buckle on ribbon, very fine £40-60
LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY, MARINE MEDAL, 1st type, 1st Class medallion, 56mm., silver, frosted and glazed, silver band inscribed: ‘To Mr Richd. Preston for gallantly swimming to the rescue of two gentlemen who were nearly drowned at New Brighton on the 28th of Aug. 1871’, in fitted leather case of issue, extremely fine, attractive and scarce £600-800
For other medals to the Preston family, see lots 348, 450, 736 and 894. 405
LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK ANDHUMANE SOCIETY,MARINEMEDAL, 3rd type, silver (Fredk. Mack for having jumped into the Mersey at Runcorn & rescued a Boy, Augt. 10. 1888) with silver buckle on ribbon, slight edge bruise, good very fine £140-180
‘A Silver Medal, and 20s., for damage to watch and other expenses, to Frederick Mack, telegraph clerk, for having, with considerable difficulty, rescued a boy who had fallen into the River Gut, on the 10th instant, at Runcorn, and was being swiftly carried away by the ebb tide.’ (extract from the Society’s 50th Annual report).
406 407
LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK ANDHUMANE SOCIETY,MARINEMEDAL, 3rd type, silver (To John Starkey for Gallant Service at Widnes 18th April 1919) with silver buckle on ribbon, nearly extremely fine
£140-180
LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY, MARINE MEDAL, 3rd type, bronze (To Walter James, for Gallant Service, 23/7/28) with bronze buckle on ribbon, edge bruise, good very fine
£100-140
‘Bronze Marine Medal and Certificate of Thanks, and 20/- to Walter James, for rescuing a boy aged 11 in danger of drowning in the River Mersey at the North West Gladstone Bank, on the 23rd July, 1928.’ (extract from the Society’s 90th Annual report).
408
LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY, GENERAL MEDAL, silver (Mr David Irving, Chief Officer, S.S. British Empire “For Conspicuous Gallantry displayed on board that steamer at Antwerp on 17/5/02) with silver buckle on ribbon, in Oldfield, Liverpool case of issue, extremely fine
£300-400
‘Silver General Medal, Binoculars and Vote of Thanks to Mr David Irving, chief officer of the S.S. “British Empire” and Silver General Medal to Mr Clifford Roberts, fourth officer, for going down into the hold of that steamer at Antwerp, on May 17th, 1902, and at great risk to themselves, bring up six men who had been overcome by fumes of noxious gases. Mr Irving, having wrapped a handkerchief round his mouth, tying a rope around himself, and taking another in his hand, descended five times to bring up a man each time. Mr Roberts then took his Chief’s place, and got up the sixth man. All the victims were insensible, and three never recovered consciousness.’ (ref. 63rd Annual Report, 1 July 1902)
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