Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd type, bronze (Mr. Wm. C. Wallis, Officer Ship “Akbar” in Charge of Boat at Rescue of 4 Men from the Mersey on July 26th 1903), good very fine £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners.

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William Wallis was awarded the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society’s Medal, in bronze, in respect of the rescue of four men from a capsized sailing boat in the Mersey on the evening of 26 July 1903 - so, too, 12 boys from the reformatory ship Akbar, who manned the boat - ‘the night was dark with a very strong flood tide running’, but the rescue was completed in about three quarters of an hour.