Orders, Decorations and Medals

R.S.P.C.A. Life Saving Medal, bronze (P.C. Adams-1937) complete with ‘For Humanity’ brooch bar, on incorrect ‘silver medal’ ribbon, in case of issue, extremely fine £120-160

1430 Police Constable Frank Adams was awarded the R.S.P.C.A. Life Saving Medal in Bronze ‘For rescuing a dog from a disused quarry at Keighley, Yorkshire’.

Frank Adams was born in Worcester on 19 June 1904. Employed as a Police Constable, in 1941 he was living at 5 Wheatcroft Avenue, Batley. Sold with the recipient’s National Registration Identity Card, dated 1940, which bears a photograph of the recipient.