Life Saving Awards from the Collection of John Wilson

Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, ‘Wartime Bar’, ‘P. Con. John Burridge, Blackpool 3rd October 1944’, good very fine £80-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Life Saving Awards from the Collection of John Wilson.

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S.P.L.F. Case 17,579. Police Constable Burridge, Blackpool Police, was to be ‘awarded’ a Bronze Medal, as given in the society’s minutes of 1 December 1944.

Because of wartime economies, the Society was informed by the Board of Trade that they could no longer be permitted to manufacture bronze medals. In January 1943 the Society decided that where medals were to be awarded, it would be represented by a special silver ‘Wartime Bar’. Recipients would later be able to apply for a medal once the war had come to a successful conclusion. The production of medals for award by the Society resumed in autumn 1947. It is not known if Burridge applied for and received the bronze medal he was due.

With copied extract from the Society’s minute book. For another ‘Wartime Bar’, see lot 586.