Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, General Medal, silver (Owen Thompson for stopping a runaway Horse in Regent Rd. on 22nd January 1903 at 2.45 P.M.), lacks suspension bar, some edge bruising, very fine £100-140

‘Silver Clasp, Vote of Thanks, and 20s. to Police Constable 136E (John Reed), and Silver General Medal and Vote of Thanks to Owen Thompson, tobacconist, of 34 Regent Road, Bootle, for pluckily stopping a runaway horse attached to a light float in Regent Road, on January 22nd. 1903, at 2-45 pm. Police Constable Reed already holds the Society’s General Medal’ (Extract from the L.S.& H.S. 64th Annual Report).