Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Police Sergeant C. McMaster, Lancashire Constabulary, who was awarded the R.S.P.C.A. Bronze Medal for rescuing a sheep from a quarry ledge in 1942

Defence Medal; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Sergt. Charles McMaster) in named card box of issue; R.S.P.C.A. Life Saving Medal, bronze (Police Sergeant C. Mc.Master. 1942) with integral top ‘For Humanity’ riband bar, in case of issue; together with the recipient’s St. John Ambulance Association Re-Examination small bronze medallion, the reverse engraved ‘350630 Charles Mc.Master’, in named card box of issue, with dated bars for 1932 and 1933, these both identically numbered, extremely fine (5) £140-£180

Charles McMaster was born at Stockton, Co. Durham, on 13 February 1904 and joined the Lancashire Constabulary on 14 April 1926, being promoted Sergeant on 8 February 1942. He received a high commendation, and was awarded the bronze medal of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ‘for the rescue of a sheep from a quarry ledge in conjunction with Police Constable Claxton’, on 17 December 1942. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 30 October 1951, and died in service on 6 April 1953.

Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient, and medal roll extract for the Coronation Medal that confirms the award of the medal (albeit posthumously).