Lot 1027

Sale 48 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes

Royal Shipwreck Relief and Humane Society of N.S.W. Bronze Medal, Wm. Vincent Craven for saving life Bondi 26th March 1921. Engraved. Very fine.

William Craven was an ex Captain of Bondi Surf Club. Awarded for a surf rescue at Bondi on Saturday 26 March 1921. With an extract from the Sydney Morning Herald of 28 March 1921 which describes the rescue in detail.