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World Orders and Decorations
South Africa, Republic, Woltemade Decoration for Bravery, gold (18ct., 53.83g including riband) (No. 43 Jacobus J. Brown (27.10.86)) with original investiture hook and accompanying socket for wear; together with the related miniature award, gold (18ct., 8.92g including riband), in case of issue, minor edge bruise, otherwise extremely fine and rare £1,000-£1,400
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Jacobus Johannes Brown was awarded a posthumously Woltemade Decoration for Bravery in Gold for his heroic attempt in trying to rescue a man from a flooded drain on 27 October 1986, during which Brown was drowned.
The Woltemade Decoration for Bravery in Gold was the senior South African civilian gallantry award, and replaced the Union of South Africa King’s/ Queen’s Medal for Bravery, which had been instituted in 1939, and was discontinued upon the establishment of the Republic of South Africa in 1961. It was instituted on 20 May 1970, and was discontinued in 1988, when it was replaced with the Woltemade Cross for Bravery in Gold.
It was named in honour of Wolraad Woltemade, an elderly servant of the Dutch East India Company, who gave his life while rescuing shipwrecked sailors in Table Bay on 1 June 1773. The ship De Jonge Thomas broke anchor in a gale force Northwestern and was driven ashore in the Salt River Mouth. Woltemade rode his horse into the sea seven times and brought surviving sailors ashore each time, but on the eighth excursion Woltemade and his exhausted horse were overladen by panic-stricken sailors and drowned. The reverse of the medal, which is identical in design to the earlier Union of South Africa King’s/ Queen’s Medal for Bravery, shows Woltemade on his horse rescuing a sailor from the surf.
South Africa, Republic, Woltemade Decoration for Bravery, gold (18ct., 53.83g including riband) (No. 43 Jacobus J. Brown (27.10.86)) with original investiture hook and accompanying socket for wear; together with the related miniature award, gold (18ct., 8.92g including riband), in case of issue, minor edge bruise, otherwise extremely fine and rare £1,000-£1,400
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Jacobus Johannes Brown was awarded a posthumously Woltemade Decoration for Bravery in Gold for his heroic attempt in trying to rescue a man from a flooded drain on 27 October 1986, during which Brown was drowned.
The Woltemade Decoration for Bravery in Gold was the senior South African civilian gallantry award, and replaced the Union of South Africa King’s/ Queen’s Medal for Bravery, which had been instituted in 1939, and was discontinued upon the establishment of the Republic of South Africa in 1961. It was instituted on 20 May 1970, and was discontinued in 1988, when it was replaced with the Woltemade Cross for Bravery in Gold.
It was named in honour of Wolraad Woltemade, an elderly servant of the Dutch East India Company, who gave his life while rescuing shipwrecked sailors in Table Bay on 1 June 1773. The ship De Jonge Thomas broke anchor in a gale force Northwestern and was driven ashore in the Salt River Mouth. Woltemade rode his horse into the sea seven times and brought surviving sailors ashore each time, but on the eighth excursion Woltemade and his exhausted horse were overladen by panic-stricken sailors and drowned. The reverse of the medal, which is identical in design to the earlier Union of South Africa King’s/ Queen’s Medal for Bravery, shows Woltemade on his horse rescuing a sailor from the surf.
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