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Auction: 20002 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Space Exploration
Lot: 529

The poignant Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society bronze Medal awarded to T. K. Quinn, for leaping into the River Dee to save the life of Edith Ford - it later transpired she had taken to the water in an attempt to take her life and that of her infant; Quinn saved her life but baby Malcolm Ford died

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, bronze (To Terence K. Quinn, For Gallant Service, 1/5/50.), very fine

L.S. & H.S. Report for July 1950:

'Bronze Marine Medal, Certificate and £5 each to Terence Kevin Quinn and William White and Letters of Commendation [to five others] for having rescued a woman from drowning in the River Dee at Chester, on 1st May 1950.'

Terence Kevin Quinn, who lived at 70 Cape Road, Warwick, was working on a boxing booth at Collin's Pleasure Fair. He was awarded the Medal for the aforementioned action which later transpired that Edith Ford had jumped into the Dee with her one-year old child, Malcolm, attempting to drown them both. The poor child drowned, his body found the next day and Edith charged with murder. She was found not fit to plead when the court case came up the following month and remained in hospital but was charged with the tragic crime; sold together with copied extracts.

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Sold for
£210

Starting price
£110