Auction Catalogue

2 December 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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№ 319 x

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2 December 2009

Hammer Price:
£220

Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal, 2nd type, silver, with 2nd Award Bar (?) (Hugh Kennedy) with hallmarks for Glasgow 1935, lacking brooch bar, some edge bruising, very fine £100-140

Hugh H. Kennedy, of 11 Tower Street, Glasgow. Awarded the Glasgow Bravery Medal on 9 March 1937. ‘... who rescued a boy from drowning in the Monkland Canal at Castle Street on 14th September last (1936)’.

Again awarded on 14 December 1937. ‘... who (with Peter Murphy and James Boyle) ... made repeated but unsuccessful efforts to rescue a child from drowning in the Forth and Clyde Canal near Castle Street on 15th June last.

It is possible that Kennedy was awarded a second medal rather than a clasp for his second act of bravery. The above slip-bar is not confirmed as the ‘2nd Award Clasp’ for the medal. With some copied research.