A Boy Scouts Association Gallantry Cross Second Class group of six awarded to Boy Scout L. F. Prutton, later Lieutenant, Indian Army

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (Lt. L. F. Prutton. Indian Army); Boy Scouts Association Gallantry Cross, 2nd Class, 2nd issue, silver, the reverse inscribed, ‘L. Prutton, 3-12-30’, with integral top riband bar, good very fine and better (6) £600-£800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Boy Scouts Association Gallantry Crosses.

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Dix Noonan Webb, July 2004.

L. F. Prutton, a member of 94th Bedfordshire (St. Paul’s Wesleyan) Scout Group was awarded his Boy Scouts Association Gallantry Cross for having rescued a boy from drowning in the River Ouse, between Newnham Bridage and Newnham Baths on 12 July 1930.