Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Boy Scouts Association Gallantry Cross, 2nd Class, 2nd issue, silver, unnamed, with integral top silver riband bar, in damaged card box of issue; together with the original decorative Bestowal Certificate, named to ‘Scout Fred Tunnicliffe, of 1st Longton (Earl of Harrowby’s Own) Troop’, and dated 10 November 1924, this mounted in a glazed frame, good very fine £240-£280

Fred Tunnicliffe, a Scout of the 1st Longton (Earl of Harrowby’s) Own Troop, was awarded the Silver Cross in recognition of his gallantry in saving the life of a brother scout who had fallen from the Penmaenback Mountain whilst on camp in North Wales on 5 August 1924 – the boy’s fall had been broken by a gorse bush, and Tunnicliffe climbed to a considerable height in order to prevent his further fall until they were both rescued. Had the other boy fallen further then he would almost certainly have been killed.

Sold with a portrait photograph of the recipient, and a newspaper cutting giving details of the act of gallantry.