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21 May 2020

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№ 772 x

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21 May 2020

Hammer Price:
£360

Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, 5th type, silver (Frederick Warrington, Harrogate. 20th. June 1924.) with top silver riband bar, edge bruise and minor edge nicks, good very fine £240-£280

‘A Silver Medal and ten guineas was awarded to John Lester, Waiter, and a Silver Medal and five guineas was awarded to Frederick Warrington, Fireman, of the Harrogate Fire Brigade, who, by their united efforts, saved the life of a French maid, Madamoisselle L’Oiseau, on the occasion of the destruction of the Hotel Majestic, Harrogate, on 20 June 1924. The girl was on the seventh storey, from which her rescuers got her out on the roof, and thence to a place of safety.’ (Saved from the Flames, by Roger Willoughby and John Wilson refers).