Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Police Constable H. W. Woodward, Hull Police

Defence Medal; Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, 5th type, silver (Herbert W. Woodward, Hull. 3-3-29) first with contact marks, nearly very fine and better (2) £240-£280

Provenance: John Wilson Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2013.

Case 16,429: ‘On 3rd March 1929, Mrs Ethel, Kathlene (9), Donald (7), Zena (21/2) and Brinda Leathley (15 months) and Emma Sherwood (66) were saved from a fire at 9 Clarendon Street, Hull, cause of fire was unknown.’

Herbert William Woodward joined the Hull Police on 9 July 1928, and retired from the force on 21 October 1955.