Orders, Decorations and Medals

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, General Medal, silver (Owen Thompson for Stopping a Runaway Horse in Regent Rd. on 22nd January 1905 at 2.45 p.m.) minor edge bruising, very fine £200-250

‘Silver Clasp, Vote of Thanks, and 20s. to Police-Constable 136 E (John Reed), and Silver General Medal and Vote of Thanks to Owen Thompson, tobacconist, of 34, Regent Street, Bootle, for pluckily stopping a runaway horse attached to a light float in Regent Road on January 22nd January, at 2-45 pm. Police-Constable Reid already holds the Society’s Silver Medal’. (Ref: Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society – 64th Annual Report, year ending 1st July 1903, p.41).

With copied society report extracts. See previous lot for the medal to P.C. John I. Reid.