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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 531

(x) Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society Marine Medal, 3rd type, silver (Nicholas Grumley, Mate Woodside Stage for Having Rescued a Boy from Being Drowned in the Mersey July 4 1893.), fitted with replacement floral claw, otherwise very fine

Nicholas Grumley was awarded the Marine Medal in silver in the Extract 55th Annual Report of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society:

'A Silver Medal and 20s., with repairs of watch, to Nicholas Grumley, Mate, Woodside Landing Stage, for having jumped into the River Mersey at the back of the stage and rescued a boy, who, while playing on the lower end of the floating bridge, had fallen into the river and was being carried away by the ebb tide, on the 4th July, 1893.'

The Woodside Landing Stage was a floating landing stage which opened at Birkenhead in 1861 and could rise and fall with the tide; sold with copy citation from Society records.


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