Orders, Decorations and Medals

Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal, 2nd type, silver (Andrew McMurdie) hallmarks for Glasgow 1940, with brooch bar, minor edge bruising, good very fine £100-140

Andrew McMurdie of Victoria Cottage, Mossfield Street, Old Canal Basin, was awarded the medal in silver on 11 August 1942 for rescuing a boy from drowning in the Forth and Clyde Canal on 26 April 1942. He was awarded a bar to his medal (not with lot) on 20 January 1959, for rescuing a person from drowning in the Forth and Clyde Canal on 22 December 1958.