Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Humane Society, large bronze medal (successful) (Thomas Smith Vit. Ob. Serv. D.D. Soc. Reg. Hvm. 31 May 1852) pierced for ring suspension, and housed in leather case of issue, minor edge bruise, nearly extremely fine £180-£220

R.H.S. Case no. 15,216: ‘Saml. Teasdale and Henry Cooper. May 31, Yarmouth River. Thos. Smith and John Collins, fishermen, both swam a distance of thirty yards and saved them.’

Thomas Smith resided at Gorleston, Suffolk (now Norfolk), and was 39 years of age at the time of the incident. Teasdale and Cooper’s boat had capsized in a squall.

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