Auction: 11010 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 309
Scout Association Silver Cross for Gallantry, reverse engraved ´M.E. Beale 7.8.1944´, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1943), with top silver riband bar, extremely fine, with related cloth badge, photographic image of recipient, and a comprehensive file of research Estimate £ 600-800 Scout Association Silver Cross for Gallantry, promulgated 4.10.1944 ´For his gallantry in supporting until the arrival of a boat a man and a boy the occupants of an overturned canoe who were in danger of drowning at Bucks Mills, North Devon, 7th August 1944.´ Boy Scout Martin Edward Beale was a member of the 17th Wimbledon Scout Group, London.
Sold for
£650