Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Wisbech Humane Society’s Silver Medal for Lifesaving, the reverse officially engraved, ‘George Porter for rescuing Walter Lenton from drowning in [the] river Nene’, one or two edge bruises, otherwise extremely fine and rare £250-350

The above incident took place on 7 September 1922. Wisbeck, in Cambridgeshire, was then a small market town.