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Three: Able Seaman F. Green, Mercantile Marine
British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals 1914-18 (Frederick Green); Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (unsuccessful) (Frederick Green, 26th Dec. 1911), the first two with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine (3)
£80-100
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners.
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Frederick Green, who was born at Soton in January 1890, was awarded the R.H.S. Medal, in bronze, for his attempted rescue of fellow crew member from the R.M.S. Thames on 26 December 1911, when the latter fell from the gangway into the dock at Buenos Aires.
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