Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Lieutenant L. F. Prutton, Indian Army, a Chindit who had earlier been awarded the Boy Scouts Silver Cross for Gallantry

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (Lt., Indian Army); Boy Scouts Silver Cross for Gallantry, by Collins, London, hallmarked, the reverse officially inscribed, ‘L. Prutton, 3-12-30’, together with a Chindit uniform flash, good very fine and better, rare (7) £400-500

Prutton was awarded his Boy Scouts Silver Cross for Gallantry while a member of 94th Bedfordshire (St. Paul’s Wesleyan) Scout Group, having, on 12 July 1930, rescued a boy from drowning in the River Ouse, between Newnham Bridage and Newnham Baths.