Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners’ Royal Benevolent Society Committee Medal, silver, unnamed, with uniface double dolphin suspension, about extremely fine £100-140

The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners’ Royal Benevolent Society Committee Medal was not awarded for gallantry in saving life, but was instead ‘given to those who in one way or another performed some special service to the Society, for example a voluntary worker who achieved outstanding fund raising results. In other words, it was a mark of appreciation for a particular contribution to the Society’s work.’ (letter from the General Secretary of the Society, published in the Life Saving Awards Research Society Journal, May 1992 refers).

One named example is known, that to Commander W. H. Symons, R.N., who was Secretary of the Society from 1873-78.