Lot Archive

Lot

№ 688

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19 September 2003

Hammer Price:
£120

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd type, bronze (To William H. Jones, for Gallant Service, 14/6/36), with bronze brooch bar, in case of issue, extremely fine £70-90

‘Bronze Medal and Certificate each to William Henry Jones and Frederick Arthur Jones, for rescuing two men who were clinging to the bottom of an upturned boat and in grave danger of drowning, near Spencer’s Spit, off Hoylake, on 14th June 1936.’ (98th Annual Report, year ending 1.7.1937, page 22 / 23)