Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal, silver, with three Additional Award Bars each for Five Years, and top ‘Twenty Years’ brooch bar, the edge officially numbered ‘2340’ and additionally contemporarily engraved ‘Henry Pyne’, the reverse engraved ‘Exmouth’, minor contact marks, nearly very fine £50-£70

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

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Henry John Pyne was born in Back Street, Littleham, Exmouth, Devon in 1879, the son of a road labourer. In the 1901 Census aged 20 he is a General Labourer residing at Withycombe Raleigh; in 1911 a General Labourer employed by the Urban District Council residing in Meadow Street, Exmouth; and in 1921 still in Meadow Street employed as a Driver Foden Waggon employed by Exmouth Council. In the 1939 Register he is shown as a Labourer Exmouth Urban District Council Heavy Worker, Retired Officer Fire Brigade Exmouth UDC. He was awarded the National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal in silver for twenty years service with three further Five Years service bars. He died in Exmouth on 5 April 1950, aged 70.

Sold with copied research.