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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 534

(x) Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, General Medal (1894), silver (Owen Thompson for Stopping a Runaway Horse in Regent Rd. on 22nd January 1905 at 2.45. p.m.), light edge bruising, very fine or better

Owen Thompson was awarded the General Medal in silver the 64th Annual Report of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society:

'Silver clasp, Vote of Thanks, and 20s. to Police Constable 136E (John Reed), and Silver General Medal and Vote of Thanks to Owen Thompson, tobacconist, of 34 Regent Road, Bootle, for pluckily stopping a runaway horse attached to a light float in Regent Road, on January 22nd, 1903, at 2.45 pm. Police Constable Reed already holds the Society's Silver General Medal.'

According to the website of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, of approximately 1,400 awards of the General Medal, over 1,200 were for the stopping of runaway horses. Practically every one of these heroic deeds took place on the streets of Liverpool when, more often than not, it required the rescuer to leap out in front of one - or a pair - of frightened horses, stampeding down a cobbled street and pulling a heavily laden wagon at speed. It was not unusual for the rescuer to be seriously injured on such occasions; sold with copied citation and Annual Report for 1903.


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