Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Fire Medal, bronze (Thomas Henry Stanton For Gallant Service 29-10-69) with bronze ribbon buckle, nearly extremely fine £200-£260

Extract from the 131st Annual Report, Year ended 1st July, 1970:

‘Bronze Fire Medal and Certificate of Thanks to Thomas Henry Stanton, aged 66, for having courageously rescued a baby from a fire in a first floor flat in St Oswald Street, Old Swan, Liverpool, on the 29th October, 1969.’

Sold with two copied news cuttings about the incident. Sadly the two month-old baby boy died of extensive burns in Alder Hey Hospital a few hours later.