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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 1247

A Superb Second War ´Blitz´ G.M. Group of Four to Special Constable F.C. Almond, Metropolitan Police a) George Medal, G.VI.R. (Frederick Charles Almond) b) 1939-1945 Star c) Defence and War Medals, light contact marks overall, very fine, mounted as originally worn (4) Estimate £ 3,000-3,500 G.M. London Gazette 7.2.1941 Charles Frederick (sic) Almond, Special Constable, Metropolitan Police Force. ´A house was demolished by enemy bombing. In the wreckage was buried a man whose hand only was showing, and who was crying for help. In an endeavour to release the trapped victim S.C. Almond, who was on the scene, tunnelled below the mass overhanging debris, which threatened every moment to fall on him. After working alone for some considerable time he succeeded in sufficiently uncovering the man to allow a doctor to administer a hypodermic injection. Eventually a rescue party arrived and took steps to support the wreckage. Even then the Police Officer was the principal worker in securing the eventual release of the casualty. The man was taken to hospital and has since recovered. There is no doubt that the Special Constable saved his life. On several other occasions Almond has shown courage of the highest order in rescuing victims of enemy air raids.´ Frederick Charles Almond, G.M., performed the rescue at a house in Verona Street, Lavender Hill, London on the 16th September 1940.

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