Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Police Constable Edwin Abbott, Metropolitan Police

Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police (P.C., Y. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C.) mounted as worn; Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, 5th type (1892-1901) bronze medal (P.C. Edwin Abbott, 169Y, 28 Weedington Rd. N.W., 23rd Decr. 1906) with silver buckle on ribbon, good very fine (3) £240-280

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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Ex Gould Collection, D.N.W. September 2002.

Edwin Abbot was born at Portsea, Hampshire, in 1880, and was a Naval Stores Officer at Portsmouth Dockyard before joining the Metropolitan Police on 4 November 1901, aged 21. He was awarded the Society’s Bronze Medal and £2 2s. for rescuing Henry Collins, aged 58, from a fire at 28 Weedington Road, Kentish Town, on 23 December 1906. (Ref. case no. 15,100). He retired from the police service in April 1919. Sold with some copied details.