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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.
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