Lot 671
LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY MARINE MEDAL, 3rd type, bronze (To Joseph Whemond, for Gallant Service, 29/8/31), with brooch bar, in case of issue
Price Realised
GBP 138
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Specialist note
Extract from the Society's 93rd Annual Report (dated 1.7.1932):
'Bronze Medal and Certificate of Thanks to Joseph Whemond (22) for plunging into the River Dee at Chester and rescuing a man who had fallen out of a canoe which had capsized and, being unable to swim, was in danger of drowning, on the 29 August 1931'.
'Bronze Medal and Certificate of Thanks to Joseph Whemond (22) for plunging into the River Dee at Chester and rescuing a man who had fallen out of a canoe which had capsized and, being unable to swim, was in danger of drowning, on the 29 August 1931'.