A Metropolitan Fire Brigade Bravery Medal group of five awarded to Company Quartermaster Serjeant Frederick C. Tiplady, 15th Battalion London Regiment, late Army Cyclist Corps and Fireman, Metropolitan Fire Brigade

1914-15 Star (271 Sjt., A. Cyc. Corps); Victory Medal 1914-19 (271 C. Sjt., A. Cyc. Corps); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (376 C.Q.M. Sjt., 15/Lond. R.); Metropolitan Fire Brigade Bravery Medal, silver (Frederick C. Tiplady) edge bruising; ‘O.O.C.C. Medal’, silver, inscribed, ‘100 Miles, 10 Hours’ and ‘F. C. Tiplady, 1910, 28th May’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1910, very fine and better (5) £400-500

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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Tiplady, Frederick, 4th Cass Fireman and Tennuci, Charles, 3rd Class Fireman, 22 February 1881

‘Saved five lives at a fire in Warren Street, Fitzroy Square’ (Ref. British Calender of Heroes).

‘Yesterday morning, shortly before 6 o’clock, a fire occured at 27, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square, upon premises, the ground floor of which was occupied by J. Anderson, newsagent, and the upper part by about a dozen lodgers. The alarm was given by a workman, and the adjoining fire-escape was on the spot within a few minutes. The two firemen in charge of it named Tennucca (sic) and Tiplady, rescued five persons who were in extreme danger, three of them being insensible; but before they could again enter the house an old woman named Lucy Grief who occupied the front room on the second floor, was suffocated. Several engines were soon on the spot, but the flames spread rapidly, completely burning out the front shop, the back parlour, and the back room on the first floor, and doing great damage. The cause of the fire is unknown’ (Ref. The Times, 23 February 1881).

The above taken from Silver Medal for Bravery of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade 1877-1897 ...., compiled by Bill Fevyer, L.S.A.R.S.J. 19, p.4-43.