Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal, 3rd type, gold (9ct., 9.79g) (David Ferris) hallmarks for Edinburgh 1965, lacking integral top riband bar, extremely fine £180-£220

David Ferris, of 20 Carlisle Street, was awarded the Corporation of Glasgow’s Bravery Medal in gold for ‘for bravery in rescuing a boy from drowning in the Forth and Clyde Canal on 22 May 1968’.

Sold with a photocopied cutting from the Glasgow Herald, 13 November 1968, which lists a number of Glasgow Bravery Medal awards including that to Ferris.