Auction Catalogue

28 March 2002

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

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

Lot

№ 646

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28 March 2002

Hammer Price:
£75

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, bronze (To Thos. A. Cain for meritorious service, 28th May 1923) complete with bronze ribbon buckle; together with related British War Medal 1914-20 (T. A. Cain, Fmn., M.F.A.)some edge bruising and contact wear to second, otherwise very fine (2) £40-50

Extract from the Society’s 84th Annual Report for the year ending 1st July 1923: ‘Bronze Marine Medal, Certificate of Thanks and £1 each to Thomas Sutton and Thomas Alexius Cain, for rescuing a man immersed in the South Hornby Dock, between a vessel and the quay, on 28 May 1923.’