Auction Catalogue

29 June 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 891 x

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29 June 2006

Hammer Price:
£130

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, General Medal, bronze (To Thomas Young for Gallant Service, 13/8/35), with bronze brooch bar, in damaged Oldfields, Liverpool case of issue, minor edge bruising, good very fine £140-180

‘Bronze General Medal and Certificate of Thanks to Thomas Young for stopping a runaway horse attached to a L.M. & S. laden lorry in Ford Street, Liverpool, on the 13 August, 1935’ (Extract from the 97th Annual Report, year ended 1st July 1936, refers).

‘L.M. & S.’ = London, Midland and Scottish Railway.