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23 March 2022

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Lot

№ 558

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23 March 2022

Hammer Price:
£160

Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Robert J. Adcock, 15th January, 1887.) lacking brooch buckle, extremely fine £100-£140

R.H.S. Case No. 23,394:

‘Robert J. Adcock, Clerk, 25, and Rev. J. C. Longe, 27, rescued Henry Gates, farmers son, 13, from Wroxham Broad, Norfolk, on 15 January 1887. Gates broke through a thin part of the ice into 10 feet of water 50 yards from shore. The two gentlemen seized a ladder and rope and skated to the boy’s rescue but found that the ice would not bear the ladder. Mr Adcock plunged into the water and supported the boy while Mr Longe tried to get the ladder near enough. Finding he could not manage this he kept hold of the ladder and followed the others into the water, by means of the rope they were then hauled to where the ice was thick, when they were all pulled out.’