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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 1447

Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal, successful (Wm. Green. Pte. Army Hospital Corps 11th. July 1877.), suspension re-affixed, otherwise good very fine, with top riband buckle Estimate £ 50-70 Private William Green, Army Hospital Corps, jumped into the River Stour at 3:30 p.m., 11.7.1877, and, in nine feet of water, swam to Mr. J. Evans and successfully brought him to the bank. Mr. Evans was the landlord of the New Inn, Iford, who was pulled into the river trying to save his horse. The fate of the horse is unknown.

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