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13 December 2012

Hammer Price:
£1,000

Boys’ Brigade Cross for Heroism, 1st type, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Private James Fisher, 18th Bristol Company, 5th June 1906’, lacking brooch bar, good very fine, scarce £1000-1400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine Collection of Life Saving Awards.

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Ex D.N.W. 1 December 2010

James Fisher was born in Bristol, c.1891. As a Private in the 18th Bristol Company of the Boys’ Brigade, he was awarded the Cross for Heroism for ‘saving life from drowning’ on 5 June 1906, aged 15 years. He was presented with his medal in September 1906.

With some copied research.