Auction Catalogue

4 July 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Miniature Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 714

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£60

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, bronze (To William Howard, For Gallant Service. 5/9/1945) complete with bronze ribbon buckle, very fine and a scarce award for an unsuccessful attempt to save life £60-80

Extract from the Society’s 107th Annual Report for the year ending 1st July 1946: ‘Bronze Marine Medal and Certificate of Thanks each to William Johnson and William Howard, for endeavouring to save the life of a boy who was drowned in an E.W.S. tank at St James’s Road, Liverpool, on 5th September 1945.’