Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: S. G. Gamble, Second-in-Command of the London Fire Brigade, and a noted author

Jubilee 1897, L.C.C.M.F.B. (Sidney G. Gamble, M.F.B.); National Fire Brigades Union L.S. Medal, 2 bars, ‘Five Years’, bronze (342), unnamed, with top bar; France, Medal of Honour (3), Ministry of the Interior, for acts of bravery, silver, reverse inscribed, ‘Sidney G. Gamble, Second Officer Metropolitan Fire Brigade 1896’, with gilt wreath on riband; another, very similar; another, a dress miniature, unnamed; Germany, Red Cross Merit Medal (3), 3rd Class, bronze, unnamed; another, two dress miniature medals; St. John Ambulance Association, Re-examination Medal, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Sidney G. Gamble No. 8375’; London Private Fire Brigades Challenge Shield Medal, silver, unnamed; ‘Federation des Sapeurs Pompiers Belges’, silver-gilt and enamel, pin-backed; ‘Union des Marne Sapeurd-Pompiers’ Badge, gilt and enamel, pin-backed; ‘France-Algerie Federation des Officiers et S/Officiers Sapeurs Pompieres’ Badge, silver-gilt, pin-backed; one other medal, white metal, these unnamed, very fine (14) £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Fire Brigade Medals.

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On the title page of the book below, Gamble states he was ‘for twenty-six years Second in Command of the London Fire Brigade; Hon. Life Member of the National Fire Brigades’ Association; Vice-President South Midland District, National Fire Brigades Association; Membre d’honneur, Federation des Officiers et Sour Officiciers de Sapeurs-Pompiers de France et d’Algers; Russian Imperial Fire Service Council, 1913; Member of the International Fire Service Council; Member of the Council of the Institution of Fire Engineers.’

Sold with the book: A Practical Treatise on Outbreaks of Fire, being a systematic study of their causes and means of prevention, by Sidney Gompertz Gamble, F.S.I., A.M.I.C.E., M.I. Fire E., Charles Griffin & Co., London, 1926, xi, 543pp., includes plates and diagrams and a photograph of the author with his signature; it is additionally inscribed, ‘Mr G. V. Tullett, Brighton, with best wishes of the Author, May 1928’, and ‘G. V. Tullett, 57 Ditchling Rise, Brighton’, covers stained, interior good. With the book is a letter on National Fire Service County Borough of Brighton headed paper to a Mr R. White who was recovering in Brighton Municipal Hospital, dated 6 March 1942, and was being presented with a copy of Gamble’s book.