Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Thomas Edwin Deller. 25 July 1868) with integral bronze riband buckle, in Harrington, London, case of issue, nearly extremely fine £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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Dix Noonan Webb, September 2005.

R.H.S. Case No. 18,210: ‘At 8 a.m. on 25 July 1868 Off the Pier, Torquay. Richard Mudge aged 14 was carried over the Pier by a runaway horse. Thomas Edwin Deller, Auctioneer, Paignton jumped into the water and saved him’.
Thomas Edwin Deller was born in Paignton, Devon, in 1844. Aged 24 at the time of the rescue, he tragically died less than five years later from phthisis (Tuberculosis) at Paignton on 26 June 1873.

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