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Auction: 1006 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 215

Pair: Private J.W. Tait, Gordon Highlanders Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, clasps loose on riband (8105 Pte. J.W. Tait. Gordon Highrs.); Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal, successful (John Wilson Tait. 2. Oct. 1898.), with integral top riband buckle, traces of lacquer, nearly extremely fine (2) Estimate £ 180-220 Mr. John Wilson Tait, a surveyor, was awarded the Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal for rescuing Mr. William Smith from Aberdeen dock, on the 2nd October 1898. Smith had tripped over a rope and had fallen into the dock. It was midnight and very dark. Tait, at great risk, jumped in and held him up till a rope was got and he was pulled out.

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£340