Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful), (Capt. E. Barnard, R.N. 23, June 1866) complete with bronze ribbon buckle in its Elkington & Co. case of issue, suspension claw tightened, otherwise good very fine £100-120

Ex Payne collection 1911.

R.H.S. Case No. 17,737: On the 23rd June 1866, the ship-keeper on the ship Mediator fell overboard in the London Docks, and Captain E. Barnard, R.N., Government Emigration Officer for the Port of London, sprang in with a rope and saved him.

Edward Barnard entered the Navy in August 1822, and served as Midshipman of the Blonde at the reduction of the Morea Castle, the last stronghold of the Turks in the Mediterranean, in conjunction with the French, in October 1828. He passed his examination in January 1829, and obtained his commission as Lieutenant on 23 November 1841. He was promoted to Commander on the retired list in July 1864, and died on 13 January 1879.