Boy Scouts Association Gallantry Cross, 2nd Class, silver, 2nd issue, silver, the reverse inscribed ‘M. E. Beale 7.8.44’, with integral top riband bar, good very fine £500-£700

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

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Martin Edward Beale, a member of the 17th Wimbledon Scout Group, was awarded his Boy Scouts Association Gallantry Cross ‘for his gallantry in supporting until the arrival of a boat a man and a boy, the occupants of an overturned canoe, who were in danger of drowning at Bucks Mills, North Devon, 7 August 1944.

Sold with a related cloth badge and a photographic image of the recipient.