Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private A. Humphrey, Middlesex Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (41991 Pte. A. Humphrey. Midd’x. R.); Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, 5th type, silver (Albert Humphrey, Slough, 17-9-34) with silver brooch bar; Bestobell Fire Brigade Prize Medal, reverse inscribed, ‘Winners Southern Region Fire Brigade Comp. 1942 A. Humphreys’, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1927, very fine and better (4) £280-320

‘On 17th September 1934, G. M. Key (29) was saved from a fire at Bestobell Works, Slough, explosion in an experimental fire tunnel.’ Commissionaire Albert Humphrey was awarded the Silver Medal and £3.3s.0d (Case No. 16,932).