Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Bristol Humane Society (Presented to Alfred Long for saving the life of Robert Richards, July 10th 1869), 48mm., silver medallion, good very fine, scarce £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Life Saving, Police and Fire Brigade Medals from the James N Spencer Collection.

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Ex J. Lawson Whalley Collection 1877 and ‘Jubilee Collection, Glendining’s 27 May 1992, lot 377.

‘Robert Richards, a boy of ten years of age, while playing on one of the quays in Bristol, fell into the river, and would have been drowned had not Long gallantly jumped into the water, and after a considerable distance, brought him safely to the shore.’