Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Humane Society, small silver medal (unsuccessful), (Charles Mansell, A.B. 13th Oct. 1904) the reverse hallmarked Birmingham 1899, complete with silver ribbon buckle in its Elkington & Co. Ltd case of issue, extremely fine and scarce £200-250

R.H.S. Case No. 33,717: At 10 a.m. on 13th October 1904, in the Cooks Straits, New Zealand, Lieutenant A. J. Payne, aged 32, and a seaman of H.M.S. Tauranga, were washed overboard during a gale, the sea being very rough. Able Seaman Charles Mansell, aged 28, went overboard with a line, but was unable to save him [Payne] and was got on board much exhausted.