563
Life Saving Awards
Beschreibung
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (unsuccessful) (Frank Knott, 23rd June, 1893.) complete with bronze brooch buckle, good very fine £100-£140 --- R.H.S. Case No. 26,563. ‘Frank Knott, a builder, aged 30, attempted to rescue Walter Phillips, a mason, aged 29, from a well at Sturminster Newton, Dorset. The man went down as usual to work when he was overcome with the foul gas and signalled for the bucket, when being drawn up he became unconscious and fell to the bottom, fracturing his skull. Knott volunteered to go down although he was advised by the doctor not to do so, he tied a rope round Phillips and he was drawn out, but unfortunately he immediately succumbed.’ Sold with copied extract from case book and newspaper account of Coroner’s report.
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Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (unsuccessful) (Frank Knott, 23rd June, 1893.) complete with bronze brooch buckle, good very fine £100-£140 --- R.H.S. Case No. 26,563. ‘Frank Knott, a builder, aged 30, attempted to rescue Walter Phillips, a mason, aged 29, from a well at Sturminster Newton, Dorset. The man went down as usual to work when he was overcome with the foul gas and signalled for the bucket, when being drawn up he became unconscious and fell to the bottom, fracturing his skull. Knott volunteered to go down although he was advised by the doctor not to do so, he tied a rope round Phillips and he was drawn out, but unfortunately he immediately succumbed.’ Sold with copied extract from case book and newspaper account of Coroner’s report.
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London
W1J 8BQ
United Kingdom
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