Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, General Medal, silver (P.C. 136E John I. Reid, For Stopping a Runaway Horse and Lorry in Regent Rd., 5th Feb. 1897) with Second Award Clasp ‘2nd Service 22 Jany. 1903’, nearly extremely fine £350-450

‘A Silver General Medal and Vote of Thanks to Police Constable 136E (John I. Reid), for stopping a runaway horse and lorry in Regent Road, on 5th February, 1897’. (Ref: Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society – 58th Annual Report, year ending 1st July 1897, p.28).

‘Silver Clasp, Vote of Thanks, and 20s. to Police-Constable 136 E (John Reed), and Silver General Medal and Vote of Thanks to Owen Thompson, tobacconist, of 34, Regent Street, Bootle, for pluckily stopping a runaway horse attached to a light float in Regent Road on January 22nd January, at 2-45 pm. Police-Constable Reid already holds the Society’s Silver Medal’. (Ref: Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society – 64th Annual Report, year ending 1st July 1903, p.41).

With copied society report extracts. See the following lot for the medal to Owen Thompson.