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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 523

(x) Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Fire Medal, silver, with Second Award Bar, 'Second Service 28th. November 1911' (To Fredk. Gray. For Gallant Service on 22 October 1906.), small edge bruise, otherwise good very fine and rare

Frederick John Gray was awarded the Fire Medal in silver in the 68th Annual Report of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society.

'Silver Medal, Vote of Thanks and 10s. to Frederick John Gray, for rescuing a woman from a house on fire in Oxford Street, Liverpool, on 22 October, 1906.'

He was awarded a Bar in the 73rd Annual Report:

'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 Certificate 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, Liverpool, on 28th November, 1911.'

The design of the Fire Medal, which was carried out by Elkington and Company in 1882, is particularly interesting and was taken from a painting by Sir John Everett Millais (1829 - 1896), President of the Royal Academy. Reproduced on the obverse of the medal, it depicts a fireman in the act of rescuing children from the staircase of a house on fire; sold with copied Society Report extracts.


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