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29 June 2022

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№ 534

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29 June 2022

Hammer Price:
£75

Coronation 1902, L.C.C.M.F.B., bronze (Joseph E. Green); National Fire Brigades Union Long Service Medal, the reverse engraved ‘Chief Officer C. L. Mason W.W.F.B.’, the edge numbered ‘6293’, with top ‘Ten Years’ riband bar, in named card box of issue, good very fine (2) £100-£140

Joseph Edward Green was born in Marylebone, London, on 24 December 1872 and joined the London County Council Metropolitan Fire Brigade on 16 February 1901. Based initially at New Cross and then Lewisham Stations, he saw further service at Millwall, Herne Hill, West Norwood, Brixton, and Battersea, and retired to pension on 15 May 1929, after 28 years and 88 days’ service.

Sold with copied record of service.

C. L. Mason served as Chief Officer with the Wolverton Works Fire Brigade, Buckinghamshire, and was awarded his Long Service Medal on 7 September 1920.