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Auction: 25111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 743

Medal of the Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, Type V, silver issue (George Millwood, Lambeth. 26.5.1918), with silver top riband buckle, good very fine

Case No. 15,750 submitted 17 October 1918 and published in the 1919 Annual Report states:

'On 26 May 1918, W. H. Ward (44) and four children were saved from a fire in Lambeth, caused by a candle.'

George Millwood was born in July 1890 and was a grocer of Juxson Street, Lambeth Walk by 1918. Together with Police Constables Charles Grubbins & Worthy Gay of the Metropolitan Police, he was decorated by the Society with their Silver Medal and a bounty of £3-3-0. Millwood died in December 1972.

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Sold for
£260

Starting price
£130