Orders, Decorations and Medals

A R.H.S. Bronze Medal pair to Sergeant R. H. Ormston, Medical Staff Corps

Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed; Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Sergt.,Med. Staff Corps, 8th August 1890), mounted for wear, good very fine (2) £200-240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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An account of the incident relates, ‘Station Hospital, Gosport, Three gentlemen were getting into a boat when it upset and they were all immersed, one swam ashore but Wood clung tightly to Norman’s neck, and both would have been drowned. Sgt. Ormston swam out with all his uniform on, wrenched Wood’s grasp from Norman and saved both their lives. 20 feet deep, 30 yards from shore’.