Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An unusual Royal Humane Society Medal awarded to Gunner A. Ellul, Royal Malta Artillery

Royal Humane Society, small silver medal (successful) (Gunner Antonio El--- M.A. 23rd. July 1889.) lacking integral silver riband buckle, much of the naming obscured by heavy edge bruising and wear, visible under loupe, fine to good fine £100-£140

Antonio Ellul is noted in the Chichester Observer of 25 September 1889 as having been awarded the Silver Medal of the Royal Humane Society for ‘saving two men from a very foul and noxious sewer at Pieta on June [sic] 23.’