Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore

Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (William H. Domone. 27th. July 1867) with integral bronze riband buckle, in Elkington, London, E.VII.R. embossed case of issue, extremely fine £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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W. H. Fevyer Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2008.

Originally issued a large bronze medal, the E.VII.R. embossed case indicates this medal to be the official small medal later issued as a replacement for wearing

R.H.S. Case No. 18,037: ‘At 4.30 p.m. on 27 July 1867 Exeter Basin 14ft water. Matthew John Dunsford aged 10 fell into the water. Wm H Domoné, Warehouseman, 74 High Street, Exeter jumped in and dived for and brought him to walls’.
William Henry Domoné was born in Ringwood in 1845. A woollen warehouseman residing in Exeter at the time of the rescue, the R.H.S. Committee meeting minutes of 13 January 1914 confirm the granting of a duplicate medal. He died at Islington, London, on 31 December 1927, aged 81.

Sold with copied research.