Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Edward Medal (Industry), E.VII.R., silver (Ram Lal Bauri) renamed, about extremely fine £200-300

E.M. for Industry in Bronze London Gazette 25 October 1910:

‘Ram Lal Bauri is a shunting porter in the employment of the East Indian Railway Company. On the 14th March, 1909, he was sitting upon the brake of the first of eight empty waggons, which were being shunted upon a colliery siding, and, as the waggons went round a curve he noticed three children playing upon the line. He jumped off, ran forward, and picked up two of the children, and was trying to get hold of the third when the waggon reached and killed her. The rescuer was knocked down but escaped injury.’

Ram Lal Bauri was awarded the Edward Medal for Industry in Bronze, not silver, whilst working as a shunting porter at the Panchgatchia Colliery railway sidings at Barabanki, United Provinces, India.