Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Frederick Jerome, 8th July 1889) complete with bronze top suspension buckle brooch; together with Arethusa & Chichester Training Ships silver medal for 3 years service at sea with a very good character (Frederick Jerome), and four Royal Antediluvian Order of the Buffaloes enamelled jewels, one in sliver (awarded 1941), all named to ‘Bro. Frederick Jerome’, mostly cased, good very fine (6) £140-£180

R.H.S. Case 24,579: ‘Frederick Jerome, waterman, at great personal risk, rescued Arthur L. Harris from drowning in the Thames, at Henley, on the 8th July 1889.’

Sold with copied entry from R.H.S. Register and two local newspaper reports concerning the incident.