Orders, Decorations and Medals

Carnegie Hero Fund Medal, bronze, 90 mm, ‘For Heroic Endeavour to Save Human Life’ (James Ferns, Glasgow, 13th November 1934) in its fitted presentation case, good very fine £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the collection of the late Mike Leahy.

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James Ferns, aged 25, Railway Platform Porter, on 12th November 1934 prevented a woman who, owing to dense fog, had fallen onto the permanent way at Gilmour Street Station, Paisley, from being run over by a train. He was awarded the Bronze Medallion of the Carnegie Hero Fund Trust, its highest honour which, from 1908 to the present day, has only been awarded on 171 occasions.