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Life Saving Awards 589


Royal Humane Society, small silver medal (successful) (Charles E. Littledale. 25th July 1937) hallmarks for Birmingham 1936, lacking integral top riband buckle and fitted with replacement cast scroll suspension, nearly very fine £240-£300


R.H.S. Case no. 54,402. Charles E. Littledale was the manager of the Iraq Petroleum Company, aged 43, at the time of the incident.


About 6.30 pm on the 25th July 1937, Littledale attempted to enter Mudeford Harbour, Christchurch, Hampshire, in a motor-boat, but found he was unable to do so owing to the 6 knots ebb tide in “The Run”. After the boat had grounded on the Bar, been swept stern first through a row of piles near the pier, it was anchored in the pool to seaward of them, to wait for the tide to slacken.


Shortly afterwards, five visitors [two fathers and their three children] attempted to cross the River Stour in a boat, were caught by the strong tide in “The Run”, and swept broadside into the piles, the boat being capsized and all on board being thrown into the water. One man and his daughter were swept against the piles, to which they clung, until rescued, whilst the others were swept seaward past the anchored motor-boat. A buoy was thrown in their direction but failed to reach them.


Littledale, knowing the danger of the strong undertow at the edge of the pool, then dived in fully clothed, swam after and supported the two children, whilst the father swam after and retrieved the lifebuoy, by means of which they were all enabled to land safely on some rocks further out to seaward. Littledale then ran back along the shore, saw that the other two were becoming exhausted and liable to be swept away from the piles, dived in, seized a lifebuoy from the motor-boat thrown within reach, and was thus able to bring the man and his daughter back to the boat. All three of them were taken on board the motor-boat and subsequently landed. But for Littledale and the anchored boat, all five persons would have been swept out to sea and probably drowned.


The persons saved were Albert E. Childs (41), Anne Childs (12) and Judy Childs (9), Captain E. C. Burton and Olga Burton (9).


590


Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (George H. Pinhay. 29. July 1884.) with integral top riband buckle, in fitted case of issue, minor edge bruising, nearly very fine


£180-£220 R.H.S. Case no. 22,424.


George H. Pinhay, a 13 year old schoolboy, was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s Bronze Medal for saving life on the River Itchen where it flows into Southampton Water at Woolston, Southampton, on 29 July 1884.


591


League of Neutral Countries Life Saving Medal, 60mm, bronze, the obvesre featuring a Royal Naval rating shaking hands with a Dutch merchant seaman, with their respective crewmates looking on, the reverse inscribed ‘The Netherland Section of the League of Neutral Countries to [unnamed] in grateful commemoration of the services tendered by the English Sailors who rescued with peril of life the crews of seven unarmed Dutch Merchantmen surreptitiously attacked and recklessly destroyed by a German Submarine February 22nd 1917’, minor edge nick, good very fine, rare


£140-£180


In February 1917 Lieutenant Commander Hersing in the German submarine U.21 was heading home after a successful (from his point of view) tour in the Mediterranean. On 22 February he met a Dutch convoy of eight steamers off the Isles of Scilly. They had just left Falmouth and were about 25 miles west of Bishop’s Rock. To Hersing these vessels seemed the most perfect gift just as he was entering the English Channel, and he promptly sank six of them. In response to the wireless calls from one of the Dutch merchantmen, three H. M. Tugs from the newly-inaugurated Rescue Service came out from Falmouth and, with the assistance of other trawlers, saved two of the steamers. About 200 of the occupants were brought ashore at Penzance.


The disaster severely angered the Dutch authorities, as the convoy had been granted ‘safe conduct’ by Germany, although Hersing was unaware of this. The incident created a diplomatic incident, and the outcome was that Germany eventually made compensation by transferring to Holland six German steamers that were lying in the Dutch East Indies.’ (Seas of Adventures, by E. Keble Chatterton refers).


The above medal was specially commissioned by the League of Neutral Countries and presented to those men who participated in the rescue of the crews of the sunk merchantmen.


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