Life Saving Awards 765
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Albert. V. Marriott. 26th Jany. 1909.) with integral top riband buckle, suspension slack, good very fine
£100-£140 Case No. 36518:
‘The boy [W. Bowen] fell through the ice on the pond 20 yds from the side 12 ft deep... Crawled along the ice which again broke but he caught the boy and got him out alive but he died.’
Albert Victor Marriott was born in Leicester, and was the son of Colour Sergeant J. W. Marriott, Royal Marines. He was a baker in Dowlais, South Wales, and was the Chairman of the Merthyr Swimming Club. The above rescue took place at 1.50pm, 26 January 1909, and is recorded in The Merthyr Express:
‘On Tuesday during the dinner hour Willis Bowen, aged six years, whose father, a collier, resides at No. 1 Penywern-court, Penywern, ventured onto the thin ice of the ‘Fish Pond’ in the neighbourhood, which is drawn upon for the purposes of the Dowlais Works, and fell in. Josiah Morgan, an elder boy, raised an alarm, and one of the first to reach the pond was a baker, an expert swimmer, named Albert Marriott of Vaughan Street, Dowlais. He plunged into the water, and succeeded in bringing the lad to the surface. Despite attempts for more than half an hour to restore animation, by Dr. H. L. Hughes, Mr. Isaac Davies, and P.S. Jones and P.S. Davies, death supervened....’
Marriott died in Merthyr in 1949. Sold with copied research.
766
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (unsuccessful) (John Foley. 14th Aug. 1911.) with integral top riband buckle, suspension claw tightened, very fine
£100-£140 Case No. 38630:
‘At 1.10pm on the 14th August, 1911, a boy named [Timothy] Sweeney was bathing in the Usk at Newport when he was carried away by the tide. John Foley, aged 15, went in, but was clutched and also got in danger. John Sullivan then plunged in and brought them out one at a time.’
John Foley was born in Newport in 1896, and resided with his family at 19 Granville Street. John Sullivan was awarded a Royal Humane Society, small bronze (successful).
Sold with copied research. 767
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Griffith Pugh. 16th Oct. 1917.) with integral top riband buckle, minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine
£100-£140 Case No. 43856:
‘At 1.30am on the 16th October, 1917, Mrs B. A. Pockock fell into a dangerous gully on Cader Idris. John F. Evans, P.S., and Griffith Pugh went to her help, and with much difficulty succeeded in saving her.’
Griffith Pugh was a farmer, whose Penrhungwyn Farm was at the foot of the mountain Cader Idris, Gwynedd. Several copied articles from local press included with the lot, show that he was often called upon to aid climbers in distress. The rescue of Captain and Mrs B. A. Pockock is recorded thus in the Liverpool Echo, 4 March 1918:
‘As a result of representations made by Mr. R. Llewellyn Own, assistant clerk to the Barmouth Council to the Trustees of the Carnegie Hero Fund, the trustees have awarded the sum of £25 to Police Sergeant J. Francis Evans, £15 to P.C. Barnard, members of the Merionethshire Police Force, £15 to Griffith Pugh, £10 to John Lewis, farmers residing on the slopes of Cader Idris range, for their heroic rescue of Captain Pockock and his wife, who had got into a perilous position close to the summit of Cader Idris, on October 16 last.
They were rescued under great difficulties, after having been kept prisoners on a narrow ledge over a dangerous precipice for two nights, during a heavy thunderstorm.
When extricated they were in an exhausted condition, necessitating medical attendance at the farmhouse, where they had to remain for several days.’
Sold with copied research. 768
Royal Humane Society, Testimonial on Vellum, inscribed ‘William H. Thomas is justly entitled to the Honorary Testimonial of this society, inscribed on Vellum, which is hereby awarded him for having on the 3rd August 1908 gone to the rescue of T. H. Davies who was in imminent danger of drowning at St. Justinian St. David and whose life he gallantly saved’, with signature of George V as President of the Society, slight water damage, otherwise good condition
£80-£100
Case No. 36388: ‘3.30pm 3 Aug 1908 Sea. St. Justinian. The men were bathing and Davies became exhausted 12 yards out 10 to 15 feet deep. Thomas went to his help and took him to a rock whence they were taken by a boat.’
W. H. Thomas was a farmer from St. David, Pembroke. Sold with copied research.
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