Auction Catalogue

10 October 1995

Starting at 2:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Westbury Hotel  37 Conduit Street  London  W1S 2YF

Lot

№ 453

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10 October 1995

Hammer Price:
£400

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Major E. F. Browning, West Somerset Yeomanry, previously awarded the Royal Humane Society Medal
Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. (Major); Royal Humane Society, bronze medal (Successful), (Ernest F. Browning, 12th July, 1896), the first three mounted as worn, together with four companion miniature dress medals, good very fine (8)

M.C. London Gazette 1 January, 1919: Capt. Ernest Frederick Browning, W.Som.Yeo, attd. 122nd Coy. L.C.
M.I.D.
London Gazette 20 May, 1918.
R.H.S. Bronze Medal: ‘E. F. Browning, brewer, at great personal risk, rescued Fanny E. Easton from drowning in the Menai Straits, on the 12th July, 1896.’ Sold with extracts from
The Times which describes the rescue of Miss Easton after she had been knocked overboard by the swinging boom of the yacht Fenella.