Orders, Decorations and Medals

Royal Humane Society, small silver medal (successful) (Yetta P. Westley, 22nd July 1880) good very fine £160-200

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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Ref. Spink Exhibition 1985, No. 12.

‘On the 22nd July, 1880, at St. Andrew’s, Fife, a young lady whilst bathing was carried out of her depth by the tide, and being unable to swim, was in imminent danger of drowning. Miss Westley plunged in to her assistance, and succeeded in bringing the lady to shore, a distance of fifty yards’ (Ref. R.H.S. Case No. 21,007; Acts of Gallantry, Vol. 2, p.28).