Orders, Decorations and Medals

LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY, Fire Medal, silver (To Fredk. John Gray, For Gallant Service on 22 October 1906) with second award bar engraved 'SECOND SERVICE 28th November 1911, ' very fine and very rare

Frederick Gray was awarded the silver Fire Medal, 'For rescuing a woman from a house on fire in Oxford Street, October 22nd, 1906, ' and a bar to the medal 'For gallantry in effecting the rescue of 2 women and a child from a house fire in Mount Pleasant on 28 November, 1911.' In the period to 1968 only 188 silver Fire Medals and 4 second award bars have been awarded, this being the only one not to a member of the police or fire brigade.