A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners

Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (unsuccessful) (Thomas G. Brown, 8th July 1925), in its fitted case of issue, extremely fine £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners.

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Thomas Gordon Brown, who was born in Edinburgh in March 1901, and who served in the Mercantile Marine in the Great War, gaining entitlement to the British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals, was serving as a Pantryman in the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company’s S.S. Gascon at the time of winning his R.H.S. Medal. Society records state that he jumped from the ship’s poop in order to try and save a shipmate who had fallen overboard, the Gascon then steaming at 11 knots, about six miles off Beachy Head. Sadly his shipmate, George Whiting was not seen again; sold with research and an old picture postcard of the Gascon.