Auction Catalogue

1 December 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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№ 508 x

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1 December 2010

Hammer Price:
£360

A Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals pair to Chief Inspector Peter Charles Gill

R.S.P.C.A. Flood Medal, obverse: two officers stepping from a boat, going to the aid of animals stranded in a flood, reverse, inscribed, ‘Insp. P. C. Gill’, bronze, with ‘For Gallantry’ brooch bar; R.S.P.C.A. Special Service Medal, obverse inscribed, ‘Silver Jubilee 1977’, silver, extremely fine and rare (2) £300-350

Peter Charles Gill was born on 23 September 1926 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Prior to joining the R.S.P.C.A. as a full-time Inspector in 1951, Hill had served as an apprentice to an engineering firm in 1940 and had served in the Army, April 1944-October 1947. Gill was accepted as a probationer with the R.S.P.C.A. in June 1951 and was appointed an Inspector 4th Class in December 1951, a Senior Inspector in December 1958 and he attained the rank of Chief Inspector in April 1970. He was stationed at Aylesbury, December 1951-November 1959; Bangor, November 1959-July 1966; Hexham, July 1966-March 1970, and Wrexham from March 1970.

During the course of his service, he was awarded the ‘‘R.S.P.C.A. Special Service Medal’ in recognition of outstanding work in connection with the rescue of animals during the East Coast Floods, 1953’; the Certificate of Merit for the rescue of a dog from a disused quarry at Pen-y-Groes on 2 June 1961, and the Certificate of Merit for the rescue of a ewe and lamb from a ledge of a disused quarry at Tan-y-Craig, Clynnog, on 11 June 1965.

With copied service paper.