Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Humane Society, large, silvered-bronze, successful (Francis Pressley, A.B., H.M.S. Shannon, 11 March 1865) fitted with ring suspension, slight edge bruise, slight contact marks, very fine £100-140

Ex Robert W. Tilling Collection, ref. L.S.A.R.S. Journal No.18, p.26-33.

Able Seamen Francis Pressley and W. T. Morris, of H.M.S. Shannon effected their successful rescue ‘at sea’, on 11 March 1865 (Case No.17460).