Orders, Decorations and Medals

Royal National Lifeboat Institution, V.R., silver (Mr John Bunt. Voted 9th February 1894) with uniface ‘double dolphin’ suspension, slight edge bruise, good very fine £400-500

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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‘Voted on 8 February 1894 the Silver Medal of the Institution, a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, and £2 to Mr John Bunt and Mr John Flory, for putting off three times in a boat, and gallantly saving the crew of four men, one of whom had become deranged, from the rigging of the brig Harriet, of Jersey, which was stranded and filled off Portishead, in a strong gale and a very heavy sea on the 18th November 1893’ (Ref. R.N.L.I. Records). Also with a copied extract from the Western Daily Press.

John Bunt was a Boatman with the Missions to Seamen; John Flory was a Scripture Reader with the Missions to Seamen.