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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 524

(x) Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Fire Medal, bronze (To John Hewitt for Gallant Conduct at a Fire. 30/1/04.), minor wear to edge obscuring naming and numerals in places, otherwise good very fine

John Hewitt was awarded the Fire Medal in bronze in the 65th Annual Report of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society:

'Bronze Fire Medals and Votes of Thanks each to Police Sergeants 17B (R. H. Cannon), and 32H (Henry James Whitley), for their praiseworthy conduct at a fire at 8 Lynedoch Street, Liverpool, on 30 January, 1904; and Bronze Fire Medals, Votes of Thanks, and 20s. each to Francis Brown and John Hewitt, for their gallant rescue of three children in the house. Unfortunately, however, the little ones were found to have succumbed.'


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