Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

‘Today’ Gallantry Fund Medal, bronze (To Day J. Kendall, Augt. 97) scratch to obverse, minor edge bruise, good very fine £200-£240

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2010.

‘Pluck Fund - J. Kendall, son of a West Yorkshire dentist, has saved three children from drowning in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at a place called Long Ing. Four children were swept off the canal bank into the water by a tow-line attached to a barge. Kendall, without a moment’s hesitation, sprang from a bridge into the water and brought three of the children to the bank. He ran a great risk of being struck by the barge when bravely struggling to get a boy named J. Nutter out of danger. I am sending the young man a medal.’ (To-Day, 17 July 1897 refers).