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Auction: 15003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 258

National Coal Board Mines Rescue Service Medals (13), Bronze, for 5 Years' Service (4) (A.E. Robbins Ashington R.S. 1947; J.J. Stokoe Clara Vale 1948; A. Stacey Tankersley Rescue Station; West Midlands Division Chatterley Whitfield A.E. Walker); Silver (all Hallmarked Birmingham), for 10 Years' Service (6) (A.E. Robbins Ashington Rescue Station 1953; J.J. Stokoe Clara Vale 1953; A. Stacey Tankersley Rescue Station; Chesterfield Rescue Station E. Jacques; W. Rattigan Boothstown 1969; J.H. Ogley Wath Rescue Station); Silver-gilt (all Hallmarked Birmingham), for 15 Years' Service (3) (A.E. Robbins Ashington Rescue Station 1957; J.J. Stokoe Clara Vale 1958; Scottish Division Fife and Clackmannan T. Wynne 1950), gilding rubbed on last two, generally very fine or better, the three to Robbins and two to Stacey all in Fattorini, Birmingham, card boxes of issue, together with the recipient's St John Ambulance Association Badge, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1929), reverse engraved '324828 Allan Stacey', with five silver Year Bars, '1931', '1932', '1933', '1939', and '1940', these all numbered '324828', and eight bronze Year Bars, '1952', and '1956' to '1962', these unnumbered as issued; a Brierley Rescue Station silver medal (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1924), the reverse engraved 'Ferrymoor Colliery March 1925 W.H. Fairbotham'; and a Fife & Clackmannan Rescue Station Badge for 1912, bronze and enamel (lot)

Mr. Albert Robbins joined the Mines Rescue Service in 1942, having previously worked in Brancepeth Colliery, Co. Durham, and subsequently served as Fire Prevention Officer at Ashington. He died in 1958.

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