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

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'.