Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd type, bronze (To Walter James, for Gallant Service, 23/7/28) with bronze buckle on ribbon, edge bruise, good very fine £100-140

‘Bronze Marine Medal and Certificate of Thanks, and 20/- to Walter James, for rescuing a boy aged 11 in danger of drowning in the River Mersey at the North West Gladstone Bank, on the 23rd July, 1928.’ (extract from the Society’s 90th Annual report).