Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Corpl. A. R. Cousins, Jany. 16 1900), complete with riband brooch, edge bruising and minor contact marks, otherwise good very fine £150-200

A rare award for services with the 2nd Battalion, Scottish Rifles during the Boer War.

Royal Humane Society Case No. 30712 states:

‘On 16 January 1900, Corporal J. Carr, of the same Battalion, was carried away by the current while crossing the Tugela River in South Africa. At great risk, Cousins swam out and succeeded in saving him.’