Auction Catalogue

7 & 8 July 2010

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 644

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8 July 2010

Hammer Price:
£90

Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal, 1st type, silver (Fireman William Grant, Northern Division) lacking brooch bar, good very fine £100-140

Fireman William Grant, Northern Division, was awarded the Glasgow Bravery Medal on 12 August 1930.

‘Constable Roderick McKenzie McFarlane, “E” Division; and Superintendent Alexander Morrison and Firemen William Grant and John Edwards, all of the Northern Division, who displayed great bravery and devotion to duty in their attempt to rescue several persons from a burning house in a four-storey tenement at 163 Coweaddens Street, on 25th February last’.

With extract from the minutes of the Corporation Committee.