Binney Memorial Medal, 48mm., bronze medallion, (Elsie May Moss 1957) unmounted, in John Pinches, London case of issue, extremely fine £300-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Life Saving Awards formed by The Late W.H. Fevyer.

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Ref. Spink Exhibition 1985, No. 176.

Binney Memorial Medal citation: ‘On the morning of 20th May, 1957, Mrs Moss, who lives at 4 Baskerville Road, Wandsworth, was indoors at her home when she heard violent screams coming from the front garden of a neighbouring house. She ran to the gate of this house and saw her heighbour struggling in the path with a man. She recognised him as her neighbour’s husband, who was living apart from his wife. The man was holding a knife and his wife was bleeding profusely from cuts on the throat and hands. As Mrs Moss ran forward the man seized his wife round the neck, apparently with the intention of banging her head on the ground. Mrs Moss grasped him from behind and pulled him away, whereupon he got up and ran off.

Mrs Moss showed great courage in tackling a violent man armed with a knife. She undoubtedly saved her neighbour from further injury and possibly saved her life’.

The Medal was presented by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of London (Field Marshal The Earl Alexander of Tunis) at the County Hall, London, S.E.1, on 30 September 1958.

Sold with original Binney Memorial Medal Citation; a letter of congratulation from Michael Hughes-Young, M.C., M.P., 20 May 1958, and letters (3) relating to the award from the Assistant Commissioner, New Scotland Yard; Clerk of the Lord Lieutenant of the County of London, and from Goldsmith’s Hall.