Pair: Private L. Plews, 18th Hussars, who was awarded the City of York’s Life Saving Medal for rescuing a boy from drowning in the River Ouse, 20 July 1896

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Orange Free State, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, last two clasps loose as issued from supplementary roll (3216. Pte. L. Plews. 18/Hrs.); City of York Life-Saving Society Medal, silver and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1901, the reverse engraved ‘Awarded to Lawrence Plews for the gallant rescue of a boy from drowning in the River Ouse July 20 1896’, with top ribbon bar inscribed ‘For Bravery’; together with two silver Total Abstinence Association medals, one for India, named, the other in Memory of Queen Victoria 1901, unnamed, generally good very fine or better (4) £260-£300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 13th, 18th and 13th/18th Hussars.

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Lawrance/Lawrence Plews was born in the Parish of Thames Ditton, Surrey, and enlisted into the 18th Hussars in London on 17 February 1888. He served in India from November 1889 to December 1895, and in South Africa from February 1900 to February 1901. He was discharged on termination of his first period of engagement on 27 February 1901. Sold with copied discharge papers, medal roll extracts and copied news cutting from the Yorkshire Gazette of Saturday 22 August 1896, confirming life saving award.