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1 & 2 March 2017

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№ 1051 x

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2 March 2017

Hammer Price:
£160

Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Chas. Ratcliffe, Labourer. O.S.D., 8th. July, 1893.) cleaned, minor edge bruising, nearly very fine £100-140

Charles Ratcliffe, a Labourer at the Ordnance Store Department, was awarded his Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal for, ‘at great personal risk, rescuing three soldiers from drowning at Fort George, Inverness, on the 8th July, 1893.’ (R.H.S. Case no. 26,615).