Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Salvation Army Life-Saving Scouts’ Bravery Medal, bronze, obverse inscribed, ‘Henry J. Hall’, no ribbon, with brooch bar, good very fine
£350-450

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Life Saving Awards from the Collection of John Wilson.

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The Life-Saving Scouts were the Salvation Army equivalent of the Boy Scout movement instituted by Baden-Powell.

With original Certificate of Bravery, named to ‘Scout James Hall, Guildford Troop’ ‘He plunged into the river at Stoughton & saved the life of a boy in danger of drowning. He brought him safely to land, then fainted from exhaustion.’, dated 18th October 1919.

With a copied photograph of the recipient in scout uniform, with his family and copied extracts from Salvation Army publications relating to the rescue and the scout movement. See also Guildford Gallantry, by John Wilson, in L.S.A.R.S. Journal No. 65.