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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 537

(x) Hundred of Salford Humane Society Medal, cruciform type, silver (Presented to J. Middleton, Liverpool, 9th March 1898, For Saving Life.), lacking top riband buckle, good very fine

The Humane Society for the Hundred of Salford was set up in 1789 and revived in 1824, for the recovery of persons apparently drowned or dead. It paid out rewards to individuals who had undertaken the rescue of drowning persons and also placed rescuing apparatus at various stations around Salford.

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