Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Surrey Commercial Dock Company Medal for Saving Life, 38mm., silver (William Edwards, July.19.07) in case of issue, good very fine, rare
£250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine Collection of Life Saving Awards.

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Ex Leahy Collection, D.N.W. 18 September 1998; James Spencer Collection, D.N.W. 16 December 2003.

‘At about 5.50 p.m. on the 19th inst., a man named Charles Halt, fell into the Canada Dock and was brought ashore in an unconscious state. His resuscitation, though ultimately successful, proved exceedingly difficult and it was necessary to continue the operations for restoring the apparently drowned man from 5.50 to 7.30 p.m. The combined efforts, however, of Gatekeeper Williams and Constable Sheppard, and of Mr W. E, Edwards of the Floated Timber Department, a member of the Company’s Life Saving Society, proved effectual, and the man was sufficiently restored to be sent, by the doctor who was summoned, to the infirmary.’ (ref: Surrey Commercial Dock Committee Minutes).