Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

A Society for the Protection of Life From Fire group of five to Fireman H. Blann, Worthing Fire Brigade

Defence; Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, 5th type, bronze (Harry Blann, Worthing, 25.4.40), edge bruising; British Fire Services Association Long Service and Efficiency Medal, for 20 years (H. Blann), silver, with ‘B.F.S.A.’ slip-bar on ribbon; National Fire Brigades Association L.S. Medal, 1 clasp, Ten Years (11499 Harry Blann), bronze; St. John Ambulance Association Re-examination Medallion (367683 Harry Blann), bronze, in card box of issue; together with N.F.S. identity disk (726072 Blann H, N.F.S. 32), good very fine (6) £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Fire Brigade Medals.

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Sold with a newspaper-cutting featuring Fireman Harry Blann, with caption below picture reading, ‘The mayor, Alderman E. A. Brackley, in 1941 presenting Fireman Harry Blann with a life-saving medal from the Society for the Protection of Life for gallant conduct during a blaze in Western Place in 1940 when he helped rescue two elderly people from a three storey building’.