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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 636

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Silver Medal for Gallantry, 2nd type (Mr. William Todd. Voted 14th July. 1898.), naming engraved in mixed styles, 37mm, silver, original uniface 'dolphin' suspension, toned, nearly extremely fine

Provenance:

J. B. Hayward Collection, November 1995.

William Todd was born at Gorleston, Suffolk in 1840. He served as Coxswain aboard The Leicester, which acted as No. 2 Lifeboat at Gorleston Station near Great Yarmouth. This medal was presented to him on his retirement, 14 July 1898. His distinguished career was summed up in the citation:

'Awarded on Mr. Todd's resignation from the post of Coxswain. Services were rendered to the smack Sir John Astley (1885), the dandy Morning Star (1888), the trawler Favourite and the dandy Belinda (1890), the yawl Kate (1891), the dandy Hiram (1893), the dandy Fraternité (1894), the dandy Coquette (1895) and the smack Follow (1897).'

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