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№ 468

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1 December 2010

Hammer Price:
£550

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Fire Medal, silver (To Fredk. John Gray, for Gallant Service on 22 October 1906) with Second Award Clasp, ‘Second Service 28th November 1911’, slight edge bruise, good very fine £450-550

‘Silver Medal, Vote of Thanks. and 10s. to Frederick John Gray, for rescuing a woman from a house on fire in Oxford Street on October 22nd.’ (Ref. Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society – 68th Annual Report, year ending 1st July 1907, p.32).

‘Silver Medal and Certificate of Thanks to John Montgomery; Silver Clasp to Medal and Certificate of Thanks to John Frederick Gray; also Bronze Medals and Certificates of Thanks each to James Montgomery, William Adolph, and Mariner Jones. For gallantly effecting the rescue of two women and one child from a house on fire in Mount Pleasant on 28th November. (Ref. Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society – 73rd Annual Report, year ending 1st July 1912, p.22).

With copied society report extracts.