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Auction: 15003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 232

Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal, successful (Wm. Rushton, 13th. September, 1890.), with integral top bronze riband buckle, virtually Mint state

Royal Humane Society case no. 25,139: 'At 4:30pm on the 13th September 1890, at a disused pit, near Clifton, Manchester, a boy, Ernest Rankin, aged 7, was bathing at the side when some of his companions urged him to go further out which he did, and got into water 10 feet deep. Mr. William Rushton, aged 31, a coal miner from Clifton, jumped in with all his clothes on and rescued the boy, who was at this state unconscious.'

Mr. William Rushton was presented with his Royal Humane Society Medal at the Blue Ribbon Hall, Pendlebury, in November 1890.

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