Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A fine campaign and long service group of eleven awarded to Assistant Divisional Officer F. Windebank, Fire Service, late Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Reserve, who was awarded the Society for Protection of Life from Fire’s Silver Medal and Bar

1914-15 Star (214394 F. Windebank, L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (214394 F. Windlebank, L.S., R.N.), note surname spelling; Defence Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, privately engraved, ‘Chief Officer F. Windebank, Glo’ster’; Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service, G.V.R. (214394 (PO. B. 6300) F. Windebank, L.S., R.F.R.); Fire Brigade Exemplary Service Medal, E.II.R. (Asst. Div. Offr. Frederick A. Windebank); Association of Professional Fire Brigade Officers’ Long Service, silver (Superintendent F. Windebank, - 1930); National Fire Brigades’ Association Long Service, bronze, with Bars for ‘Five Years’ and ‘Ten Years’ (13606 Frederick A. Windebank); National Fire Brigades’ Association Long Service, silver, with 2 Bars for ‘Five Years’ and another for ‘Twenty Years’ (5755 Frederick Windebank), impressed number and re-engraved name; Society for the Protection of Life from Fire’s Silver Medal, 5th type (Frederick Windebank, Carlton Hotel, 9 Aug. 1911), with Bar, engraved, ‘For Conspicuous Bravery, Gloucester, 30th Sept. 1928’, very fine (11) £600-800

Frederick Windebank was awarded his Society for the Protection of Life from Fire’s Silver Medal on 1 May 1913, while employed by the London Salvage Corps:

‘On 9th August 1911, Miss M. S. Garrett (70) was saved from fire at the Carlton Hotel, Haymarket, caused by defective electrical installation.’

The subsequent award of a Bar - a very rare distinction - was granted on 22 January 1929 and in respect of the following incident:

‘On 30 September 1928, Mrs. A. Garrett (46) and Mrs. E. L. Spraggett (24) were saved from a fire at 3 Commercial Road, Gloucester, caused by a smouldering paper in a fire grate.’

Sold with a copy of Saved from the Flames - A History of the Society for the Protection of Life from Fire and its Awards, by Roger Willoughby & John Wilson.