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Lot 9
* GOLOVIN, ALEXANDER 1863-1930 Costume Designs for the Salesmen from a Production of the Play "Peter Khlebnik" by Lev Tolstoy, directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold, Alexandrinsky Theatre, Petrograd, 1918 signed with initials and inscribed in Cyrillic Gouache and bronze ink on paper, laid on cardboard, 34.5 by 25.5 cm.
Lot 15
A Martin Brothers stoneware sundial, by Robert Wallace Martin, modelled in relief with sunflowers and bands of foliage, the base with incised sunrise motif, in colours, set with bronze dial inscribed 1634, incised R W Martin & Bros London & Southall 4-1888, minor damages 72cm. high Sir Richard William Drake FSA, chairman of the Burlington Fine Arts Club, in 1886 commissioned a sundial from Robert Wallace Martin for the garden of his house at Weybridge, Surrey. This is the only reference to a sundial in the extant Martin papers.
Lot 708
An Aesthetic Movement cast bronze wall sconce probably manufactured by Robbins & Co, designed by Thomas Jeckyll, oval form, cast in low relief with two swallows flying past prunus and a large mon, the border with mon and geometric panels two cast regd diamonds 49cm. high Literature Susan Weber Soros and Catherine Arbuthnott Thomas Jeckyll, Architect and Designer 1827-1881, page 235 fig 6-93.
Lot 376
1914 Star (2) (8639 Pte. C. A. New, Worc. R.; MS-3501 Pte. B. W. Maclaran, A.S.C.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (11727 Pte. G. C. Davies, The Queen’s R.; M2-137327 Pte. A. T. King, A.S.C.); 1939-45 Star (2); Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45 (2); Imperial Frontiersmen Meritorious Service Medal, bronze; Austria, Empire, Commemoration Cross 1912-13, bronze-gilt, first worn; others very fine and better (11) £60-80 Private Charles A. New, Worcestershire Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 12 September 1914. He latterly served with the Labour Corps. His home address was in Erdington, Birmingham. Private Bernard W. Maclaran, A.S.C., entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 23 September 1914. First three with copied m.i.c.
Lot 446
A fine Polar Medal group of six for Scott’s last expedition awarded to Chief Petty Officer Arthur Samuel Bailey, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (179097 C.P.O. A. S. Bailey, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (179097 C.P.O. A. S. Bailey, R.N.); Polar Medal 1904, G.V.R., 1st issue, silver, 1 clasp, Antarctic 1910-13 (179097 A. S. Bailey, P.O. 2Cl., Terra Nova); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (179097 C.P.O. A. S. Bailey, H.M.S. Queen); together with his Royal Geographical Society, Scott Memorial Medal 1913 (179097 A. S. Bailey, P.O.I Terra Nova. B.A.E.) 55mm., bronze, in case of issue, good very fine and better (6) £6000-8000 Arthur Samuel Bailey was born in Prinstead, Sussex on 25 December 1878. A Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on St. Vincent on 9 April 1894. He was advanced to Boy 1st Class in April the following year and promoted to Ordinary Seaman in December 1896 when on Australia. He was further promoted to Able Seaman in May 1898 when on Royal Arthur, to Leading Seaman in November 1902 on Boscawen and Petty Officer 2nd Class in December 1906 when on Sealark. As such he served on the Terra Nova during the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13, being a member of the shore party. Returning home, he was posted to the pre-dreadnought battleship Queen in August 1914, serving initially with the Channel Fleet and then in the Mediterranean. Whilst on the ship he attained the rank of Chief Petty Officer in October 1915. He continued to serve in the Mediterranean until April 1916 when he was posted to England. For his wartime services he was mentioned in despatches. He was demobilised on 1 November 1919. With copied service papers and a copied photograph of the crew of the Terra Nova which includes Bailey. Also with a bullion cap badge.
Lot 448
Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, V.R., large, bronze (Josh. Wade, Wreck of the “Dean of Guild” of Perth, on the Sunk Sands, on the 15th Nov. 1858) minor edge bruising, very fine £250-300 Seaman Joseph Wade of the smack Increase of Colchester, was awarded the Board of Trade Gallantry Medal in Bronze and £1 for rescuing, in the smack’s boat, in a violent gale, the crew of the schooner Dean of Guild, of Perth, which was wrecked on the Sunk Sand, Essex. The Master and Mate had previously been washed overboard. Three other seamen from the Increase were similarly awarded.
Lot 449
Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, V.R., large, bronze (Robt. Kendall, Wreck of the “Catherine” of Belfast, on 4th Septr. 1864) slight edge bruising, good very fine £250-300 Ex Edrington Collection. ‘The crew of the Catherine of Belfast had taken to the rigging in consequence of the stranding of their vessel, and she being too far from the shore for the rocket lines to reach her. Mr Lindsay, Collector of Customs at Maryport and John McLennan, Chief Boatman with a crew of seven hands went to the assistance of the three men in the stranded vessel, with the sea breaking clean over her. The risk incurred in an open boat was very great. The boat was towed out by a tug but the great risk was incurred in going in the boat while she was steered to the wrecked vessel. The boat was half full of water, the night was very dark and stormy but still they went on and dragged the men from the ship’s rigging. The service occupied one hour.’ (ref. The Sea Gallantry Medal, by R. J. Scarlett). Mariner Robert Kendall, of Maryport, Cumbria, was awarded the Board of Trade Gallantry Medal in Bronze and £2 for his part in rescuing the crew of the Catherine of Belfast on 4 September 1864. Six other members of the boat’s crew were similarly rewarded; Lindsay and McLennan were each awarded the Board of Trade Gallantry Medal in Silver.
Lot 455
Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, V.R., large, bronze (Stephen Wratten, Wreck of the S.S. “Ettrickdale” on the 12th March 1886) edge bruise, good fine £200-250 The British cargo ship Ettrickdale (of 1,324 tons) was wrecked on the Spanish coast, three miles from Gibraltar on 11 March 1886. In a dark and stormy night the crew were forced to take to the rigging. The following day two unsuccessful attempts were made by a Spanish fishing boat to reach the wreck. An attempt to rescue the crew was then made by a boat from H.M.S. Monarch. However, the boat, manned by Lieutenant John Rushworth Jellicoe (of ‘Jutland’ fame, later Admiral of the Fleet) and seven ratings, capsized in the breakers. Finally another Spanish fishing boat managed to get alongside the wreck and rescue all but one of the stranded crew. For the rescue Lieutenant Jellicoe was awarded the Board of Trade Gallantry Medal in Silver, and the ratings, including Seaman Stephen Wratten were each awarded the medal in Bronze. In addition, a total of 16 ‘Foreign Service’ Sea gallantry Medals in Silver were awarded to the Spanish fishermen involved.
Lot 460
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Miss Lillian Barclay, 17 May 1882) lacking buckle, very fine £100-140 Miss Lillian Barclay, an 11 year old schoolgirl, saved the life of her father in Cadoway Creek, Demerara, British Guiana, on 17 May, 1882. Mr. Barclay, with his two daughters and another lady, were proceeding up a tortuous creek in a corial when the boat came in collision with an overhanging trunk of a tree and capsized. The girls clung to the tree but the father remained in the boat which sank under him. He was unable to swim. Miss Lillian swam to her father’s assistance and succeeded in getting him to the bank. Ref. R.H.S. Case No. 21753.
Lot 461
Pair: James Henry Newton Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (James Henry Newton, 10th January, 1894) lacking buckle, in damaged case of issue; Norway, Medal for Heroic Deeds, Oscar II, silver, reverse inscribed in raised letters, ‘For ®del Daad’, unnamed, in damaged case of issue, first with edge bruising, very fine; second with minor edge bruise, nearly extremely fine (2) £300-400 The Norwegian steamer Edison (289 tons), en route from Rouen to Cardiff, collided with the Norwegian barque Ran (794 tons), en route from Buenos Aires to Hamburg, some forty miles off Seaton, Devon. Nineteen men of the two vessels took to a boat and after 16 hours afloat, drifted towards Seaton. In the surf the boat capsized. James Newton and his brother-in-law, Ernest Watts waded out in the surf to the capsized boat and safely brought in 15 of the 19 men. ‘On 10th January 1894 a collision occurred between two vessels off Seaton, Devon. One of them sank and 19 of the crew were rescued by the other vessel the SS Edison. They got a boat to land them but on nearing Seaton at 8.30 pm the boat capsized and all would have been drowned. James Henry Newton, fisherman, 50, rushed into the surf and one after the other brought out 11 men, and Ernest Watts rescued 4 more; the remaining 4 were drowned.’ (Ref. R.H.S. Case No. 26,945 - Committee Meeting Minutes, 15 February 1895) ‘It appears from the existing information, that the ship, where the skippers of the two ships and 17 men of the two crews rescued themselves after the collision, capsized in the breakers (waves) by Seaton so that all fell into the water. Four of the sailors were lost during the efforts to reach the shore and it is expected that the same destiny would have struck the others, unless two men, James Henry Newton and Earnest Watts, under severe mortal danger had risked themselves into the breakers and dragged the sailors on shore. One expects that the two men for having fully shown courage on the occasion shown have made themselves deserving of public reward, and it is proposed that each one of them is given the life saving medal of 2nd class.’ (Translation of extract from Official Norwegian Records Ð Letter from Consul General (London) to Royal Dept of Internal Affairs 19th March 1894). The Medal for Heroic Deeds with the lot has been added. Sold with a quantity of copied research.
Lot 464
Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd type, silver (To Wilfred Bibb, For Gallant Service, 11/7/27) with 2nd Award Clasp, ‘For Saving Life 22/9/27’, medal with hallmarks for Birmingham 1926, with silver brooch bar, in case of issue, edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine £250-300 ‘Silver Medal & Vote of Thanks each to Joseph Kelly & Wilfred Bibb and bronze Medal and Certificate of Thanks to Charles Smith, the former for rescuing a man immersed in the Salthouse Dock, and the two later for a brave attempt at rescue. The man with others was engaged in carrying a wire hawser, one end of which was attached to the stern of the S.S. “Clare Island,” along the quayside from one bollard to another, when suddenly the wire tautened, causing the man to slip. Still holding onto the wire, his added weight caused the other men to release their hold, with the result that the man, overbalancing, and still holding onto the hawser, fell into the Dock. Bibb, who was standing on the quayside at the time of the occurrence, tore off his coat and at once jumped into the dock, a distance of 15 feet. The man, who on touching the water had immediately sank, was still submerged, having stuck in the mud and although Bibb dived repeatedly, he was unable to find him. Kelly was then standing on the quay, and as Bibb had been under the water for some time, he thought he had found the man and was waiting to dive to the assistance of both if necessary, when he saw the man’s head just appear under the surface of the water, about 7 yards from Bibb. Throwing off his coat he also dived into the dock, caught hold of the man, as he was again sinking, and began towing him to a rowing boat which had been obtained from a passing barge. Smith had dived into the dock from the steamer to render assistance if needed. The man was in a bad way and after landing, was taken to the Northern Hospital, and in 2 days has almost recovered’ (Ref. Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society Ð 89th Annual Report, year ending 1st July 1928, p.27). ‘Silver Medal & Vote of Thanks to William Green and Silver Clasp, Vote of Thanks & 20/- to Wilfred Bibb, for rescuing a woman (39) attempting suicide in the River Mersey, off the George’s Landing Stage, on the 22nd September, 1927. At 1-05 pm the woman was seen to jump in the River from the stern of the New Brighton Ferry-boat, and the cry “Woman overboard” was raised. Green, a seaman on the Birkenhead Ferries, who was on the stage going off duty, saw the woman struggling in the water. He dived in fully clothed, swam to the woman and supported her. Bibb, who was also on the stage, saw the man and woman in the water, and who appeared to be in difficulties. He threw a life-buoy to them, but as it fell short, he dived into the river, seized the buoy, and swam with it to the man and woman, who were then hauled to the stage and safety’. (Ref. Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society Ð 89nd Annual Report, year ending 1st July 1928, p.33 & 34). With copied Society report extracts and a copied photograph of S.S. Clare Island and a modern photograph of Salthouse Dock.
Lot 467
Pair: Alfred Matthew Quirk Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Alfred M. Quirk) with 2 clasps, Long Service 1949, Long Service 1959; Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd type, bronze (To Alfred M. Quirk, For Gallant Service, 6/7/1941) with brooch bar, good very fine (2) £140-180 ‘Bronze Medal and Certificate to Alfred Matthew Quirk and Harry Stroud, and Certificate and 40/-. to George Hector McKinnon, for having rescued a boy from the River Mersey, at New Brighton, on the 6th July, 1941’ (Ref. Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society Ð103rd Annual Report, year ending 1st July 1942, p.24). With copied Society report extracts.
Lot 468
Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Fire Medal, silver (To Fredk. John Gray, for Gallant Service on 22 October 1906) with Second Award Clasp, ‘Second Service 28th November 1911’, slight edge bruise, good very fine £450-550 ‘Silver Medal, Vote of Thanks. and 10s. to Frederick John Gray, for rescuing a woman from a house on fire in Oxford Street on October 22nd.’ (Ref. Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society Ð 68th Annual Report, year ending 1st July 1907, p.32). ‘Silver Medal and Certificate of Thanks to John Montgomery; Silver Clasp to Medal and Certificate of Thanks to John Frederick Gray; also Bronze Medals and Certificates of Thanks each to James Montgomery, William Adolph, and Mariner Jones. For gallantly effecting the rescue of two women and one child from a house on fire in Mount Pleasant on 28th November. (Ref. Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society Ð 73rd Annual Report, year ending 1st July 1912, p.22). With copied society report extracts.
Lot 470
Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Fire Medal, bronze (To Mrs Edith Ralph, for Meritorious Service, 5th March, 1921) with silver buckle on ribbon, edge bruising, very fine £200-250 ‘Bronze Medal and Certificate of Thanks to Mrs Edith Ralph, for bravely extinguishing the burning clothing on an aged woman, fatally burned in a house in Hawkestone Street, on the March 5th, 1921’. (Ref: Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society Ð 82nd Annual Report, year ending 1st July 1921, p.37). With copied society report extract.
Lot 471
Five: Police Constable William Braine, Bootle Police, late Carpenter’s Mate, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary 1914-15 Star (Car. Mte., M.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Car. Mte., M.F.A.); Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, General Medal, silver (To P.C. 34 (Bootle) William Braine, For Gallant Service, 26th Jan. 1912); Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, General Medal, bronze (To P.C. 34 (Bootle) William Braine, For Gallant Service, 14th December 1910) very fine (5) £450-550 ‘Bronze Medal and Vote of Thanks to Police-Constable 34, Bootle (William Braine), for stopping a runaway horse attached to a spring cart in Stanley Road, Bootle, on 14th December’. (Ref: Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society Ð 72nd Annual Report, year ending 1st July 1911, p.27). ‘Silver Medal and Certificate of Thanks to P.C.34, Bootle (Wm Braime) for stopping a runaway horse attached to a wagon in Stanley Road, on 25th January’. (Ref: Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society Ð 73rd Annual Report, year ending 1st July 1912, p.24). As a Carpenter’s Mate in the M.F.A., he earned his 1914-15 Star with service aboard the armed merchant cruiser Oropesa. In March 1915 as part of the 10th Cruiser Squadron, she sank a German submarine off Skerrymore Lighthouse. Lent to the French Navy in 1917 and renamed Champagne, she was sunk by a German submarine in the Irish Sea on 15 October 1917. With copied society report extracts and other research.
Lot 474
Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, General Medal, bronze (To P.C. 119F (Albert Ryding) For Courageous Service 20th My 1912) with Second Award Clasp, ‘Second Service 11th February 1914’, with bronze buckle, good very fine £300-350 ‘Bronze Medal and Certificate of Thanks to PC 119F (Albert Ryding) for stopping a runaway horse attached to a van in Sefton Park Road on May 20th’. (Ref: Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society Ð 73rd Annual Report, year ending 1st July 1912, p.31). ‘Bronze Clasp to Medal, and Certificate of Thanks to PC 119F (Albert Ryding), for stopping a runaway horse attached to a float in Sefton Park Road, Liverpool, on 11th February, 1914’. (Ref: Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society - 75th Annual Report, year ending 1st July 1914, p.50). With copied society report extracts.
Lot 479
Jersey Humane Society, bronze, reverse inscribed (name engraved) ‘Presented to Cadet C. Bott for Courage and Humanity’, complete with bronze brooch bar, in damaged case of issue, nearly extremely fine £550-650 ‘Following the reading and adoption of the minutes of previous meeting the consideration of awards was put before the meeting and the Committee on the proposition of J. Bauche, seconded by Capt. Alexandre were unanimous in awarding to Cadet Carl BOTT the Society`s Bronze medal for his prompt and gallant action in jumping between the Quay and the Highland Queen, a merchant vessel, fully clothed and regardless of the danger to his own life, to save a woman who had fallen over the landtie and was in danger of being crushed between the ship and quay. He was successful in his gallant action, but unfortunately he himself was caught between the bows of the ship and Quay and suffered severe injury and had a prolonged spell in hospital as a result of his courageous action’ (Ref: Jersey Humane Society Minute Book - May 18th 1948). Carl Bott, a Cadet in the Merchant Navy, serving aboard the Highland Queen, made his courageous rescue attempt at St. Helier’s Harbour, on 1 April 1948. A woman, by the name of Mrs Phyllis Marie (nee Elliott), the mother of five children, had fallen into the water between the quay and the Highland Queen. Bott jumped in to rescue her but got into difficulties being crushed between the quay and ship. Three other men jumped in and got the woman out, followed by the badly injured Bott. After several weeks in hospital he returned to Aldernay with his mother to convalesce. Recovering sufficiently, he was presented with the Jersey Humane Society Medal on board a vessel of the Jersey Channel Island Shipping Company in St. Helier’s Harbour on 12 October 1948. With copied research.
Lot 484
Port of Plymouth Humane Society, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Port of Plymouth Humane Society. Awarded Arthur Matthews for rescuing A. Pengelly. 18 April 1921’, with bronze buckle, in badly damaged case of issue, nearly extremely fine £250-300 ‘ RESCUE FROM SEA - Dive to Save Drowning Man at Plymouth - The cries of a drowning man in the sea a few yards from Plymouth pier, early yesterday afternoon, were heard by Percy Rashbrook, Portland Road, Stoke, and Arthur Matthews, Albany Place, who immediately rushed to his assistance. Matthews promptly dived from the rocks, and, with the help of companions brought the unconscious man ashore, he recovered after nearly an hour`s artificial respiration had been applied by the officers of the George St. Ambulance Brigade, and a police constable. At the Homeopathic Hospital it transpired that he was William Alfred Pengelly aged 40, a labourer of Moon St., Plymouth. It is stated that he had been in failing health for some months past’ (Ref: Western Morning News, 19 April 1921).
Lot 498
‘Today’ Gallantry Fund Medal, bronze (To Day J. Kendall, Augt. 97) scratch to obverse, minor edge bruise, good very fine £200-250 ‘PLUCK FUND - J. Kendall, son of a West Yorkshire dentist, has saved three children from drowning in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at a place called Long Ing. Four children were swept off the canal bank into the water by a tow-line attached to a barge. Kendall, without a moment’s hesitation, sprang from a bridge into the water and brought three of the children to the bank. He ran a great risk of being struck by the barge when bravely struggling to get a boy named J. Nutter out of danger. I am sending the young man a medal.’ With copied extracts from To-Day, 17 July 1897 and the Colne & Nelson Times, 2 July 1897.
Lot 502
Boys’ Brigade Cross for Heroism, 1st type, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Private James Fisher, 18th Bristol Company 5th June 1906’, lacking brooch bar, good very fine, scarce £1000-1400 James Fisher was born in Bristol, c.1891. As a Private in the 18th Bristol Company of the Boys’ Brigade, he was awarded the Cross for Heroism for ‘saving life from drowning’ on 5 June 1906, aged 15 years. He was presented with his medal in September 1906. With some copied research.
Lot 507
A Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals group of three awarded to Senior Inspector Maurice Harland R.S.P.C.A. Life-Saving Medal, silver (Insp. M. Harland 1955) complete with ‘For Humanity’ brooch bar, in case of issue; R.S.P.C.A. Life-Saving Medal, 2 clasps, 1956, 1957, bronze (Insp. M. Harland R.S.P.C.A. 1954) complete with ‘For Humanity’ brooch bar, in case of issue; R.S.P.C.A. Oil Pollution Medal, reverse inscribed, ‘Oil Pollution 1967’, bronze (Sen. Insp. M. Harland) complete with ‘For Humanity’ brooch bar, in case of issue, extremely fine (3) £550-650 Maurice Harland was born in Norton, Yorkshire on 20 March 1906. Formerly employed as a Farmer, he joined the R.S.P.C.A. as a Probationer on 25 September 1950, was appointed an Inspector 4th Class on 23 April 1951 and attained the rank of Senior Inspector on 31 December 1956. During the course of his career he was stationed at Sunderland, April 1951-February 1952; Kendal, February 1952-September 1958, and Dorchester from September 1958 until his retirement on 1 May 1971. Maurice Harland died on 25 September 1994. During his 21 years service Inspector Harland received many awards. He was Commended for the rescue of a cat from a roof in Kendal, 22 April 1952 and was awarded the Certificate of Merit for assisting in the rescue of a cow from the River Kent at Stramongate Bridge, Kendal, 19 November 1953. He was subsequently awarded the “Manor Oak” Award and Certificate of Meritorious Service for ‘being the most zealous and efficient officer for the past year.’ Harland was awarded the first of his animal life-saving medals in 1954, when he was awarded the Society’s Bronze Medal and Citation Certificate for the rescue of a lamb from a pipe line at Old Hutton, near Kirby Lonsdale, 17 June 1954. He was awarded the Society’s Silver Medal and Citation Certificate for searching for a spaniel lost on Swarth Beck Gill, Arthur’s Pike, Ullswater, 17 February 1955. After being commended for the rescue of a dog trapped in a culvert, he was awarded a clasp to the Bronze Medal and Citation Certificate for the rescue of a sheep from a ledge at Knock Pipe Quarry, near Appleby, Westmoreland, 6 March 1956 and was awarded a second clasp to the Bronze Medal and Citation Certificate for the rescue of three sheep from a ledge at Rainsbarrow Crag, Kentmere, Kendal, 1 September 1957. He was Commended for the rescue of a ewe and lamb from a disused quarry at Kirkby Lonsdale, 9 July 1958. In 1967, whilst stationed at Dorchester, Senior Inspector Harland was awarded the newly created R.S.P.C.A. Oil Pollution Medal for his outstanding work resulting from the massive spill of oil in the ‘Torrey Canyon Disaster’. The tragedy was described by one expert as ‘the greatest disaster to sea bird life in the history of British ornithology.’ Yet within a few hours of the vessel going aground, the Society had mounted an extensive rescue operation to relieve the suffering of the thousands of birds coated or trapped in oil and stranded in a helpless state all along the south coast and Bristol Channel. In the days and weeks that followed the Society and allied organisations did an immense work in cleaning, rehabilitating or, where necessary, humanely destroying thousands of birds. With the recipient’s Driving Licence and twelve photographs of the recipient; also with copied service paper, roll extracts and other research.
Lot 508
A Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals pair to Chief Inspector Peter Charles Gill R.S.P.C.A. Flood Medal, obverse: two officers stepping from a boat, going to the aid of animals stranded in a flood, reverse, inscribed, ‘Insp. P. C. Gill’, bronze, with ‘For Gallantry’ brooch bar; R.S.P.C.A. Special Service Medal, obverse inscribed, ‘Silver Jubilee 1977’, silver, extremely fine and rare (2) £300-350 Peter Charles Gill was born on 23 September 1926 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Prior to joining the R.S.P.C.A. as a full-time Inspector in 1951, Hill had served as an apprentice to an engineering firm in 1940 and had served in the Army, April 1944-October 1947. Gill was accepted as a probationer with the R.S.P.C.A. in June 1951 and was appointed an Inspector 4th Class in December 1951, a Senior Inspector in December 1958 and he attained the rank of Chief Inspector in April 1970. He was stationed at Aylesbury, December 1951-November 1959; Bangor, November 1959-July 1966; Hexham, July 1966-March 1970, and Wrexham from March 1970. During the course of his service, he was awarded the ‘‘R.S.P.C.A. Special Service Medal’ in recognition of outstanding work in connection with the rescue of animals during the East Coast Floods, 1953’; the Certificate of Merit for the rescue of a dog from a disused quarry at Pen-y-Groes on 2 June 1961, and the Certificate of Merit for the rescue of a ewe and lamb from a ledge of a disused quarry at Tan-y-Craig, Clynnog, on 11 June 1965. With copied service paper.
Lot 509
R.S.P.C.A. Life Saving Medal, bronze (M. W. Bradley, 1985) complete with ‘For Humanity’ brooch bar, nearly extremely fine £100-140 ‘The River Eden at Lazonby Bridge rose considerably on the morning of 21st December, 1985, marooning 45 sheep which were near the bridge and were becoming cut off by the rising water. With two local farmers, Mr Raine and Mr Bowman, PC Bradley approached the area to see how the sheep could be rescued. The current was too strong and the water too deep that a tractor/trailer was considered. This was requested from nearby Eden Hall Estates, through the good offices of the Stockman, Mr Jackson, but while waiting for the tractor to arrive, PC Bradley collected his own canoe, wet suit, life jacket and rope etc., again through the Stockman, who lent his Land Rover and proceeded to move the sheep to the easiest crossing place. The sheep, however, were reluctant to enter the water and it needed both PC Bradley and Mr Bowman to drive them across to safety. Sometimes they were in the canoe, but mostly they were guiding the sheep, swimming with them to help get them to high ground. Five of the sheep did not survive; they were drowned as they became entangled in submerged branches and fencing’. (Ref. R.S.P.C.A. Records). For the rescue, bronze medals for lifesaving were awarded to P.C. 671 M. W. Bradley and Mr Tom Bowman; Certificates of Merit were awarded to five others. With copied official R.S.P.C.A. and Cumbria Constabulary records, together with a copied certificate of award for the Life Saving Medal.
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