Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal National Institute for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, G.IV.R., silver (Mr John Large voted the 6th June 1861) with double-dolphin suspension, contact marks and some edge bruising, about very fine
£400-500

John Large was a Master Gunner in the Royal Artillery.

‘19 February 1861: Mr Large waded into the surf at great risk to himself and helped to rescue three of the crew of the Waterford brigantine Harmony, which had been wrecked in a gale at Freshwater West Bay, near Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales’. (Ref. Lifeboat Gallantry, by Barry Cox)