Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant J. Newton

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Defence Medal, unnamed; Royal Humane Society Medal, small, bronze (successful) (John Newton, 2nd Sept. 1910) with bronze buckle on ribbon, good very fine and better (4) £120-160

‘At 12.30 a.m. on the 2nd September 1910, a man named Law fell into the Granville Dock, Dover, the depth being 20 feet and the place badly lighted. John Newton plunged in, and kept him afloat till they were picked up by a boat.’ (R.H.S. Case no. 37,910)