Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Colonel Woodcock’s Swimming Medal, silver, the reverse inscribed ‘Presented to Stanley Payne, St. Gabrels’, with top silver riband buckle, in case of issue; Royal Life Saving Society Swimming Medal, bronze, the reverse inscribed ‘Presented to S. Payne, July 1935’, with R.L.S.S. riband bar, in case of issue; Bristol Humane Society Long Distance Swimming Medal, for Quarter of a Mile, white metal (5), the reverses inscribed ‘John Palmer 1894; Gladstone Hurford 1902; Amelia Ricketts 1908; Eric George 1909; Albert Smith 1910’, last in case of issue, good very fine (7) £30-£40

Gladstone Hurford was born in Knowle, Bristol, on 25 June 1888 and subsequently served during the Great War as a Captain in the Durham Light Infantry on the Western Front from 17 March 1917.