A Collection of Boy Scouts Association Gallantry Crosses

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.