Description
Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society Marine Medal, Bronze, Henry Martin, For Gallant Service diving into the Vittoria Dock Birkenhead rescuing a man from drowning.
Officially engraved: “TO HENRY MARTIN. FOR GALLANT SERVICE. 20/10/43”
Fitted with top brooch pin for wear.
With the following extract from the society:
“Extract from the 105th Annual Report, year ended 1st July 1944:
Bronze Medal, Certificate of Thanks and 40/- to Henry Martin for having rescued a man who was in danger of drowning in the Vittoria Dock, Birkenhead, on the 20th October 1943.”
A commendable rescue, being about 50 years old at the time, but a former Fireman in the Merchant Navy.
Mr Henry Martin, was born on 28th October 1893 in Birkenhead, Cheshire.
He lived there for most of his life, shown there on the 1901, 1911, 1921 and 1939 census.
Circa 1918 as a young man, he worked as a Fireman with the Merchant Navy, who took his photograph.
In 1939, he was a Dock Labourer, living at Keswick Place in Birkenhead, Cheshire.
He died in Birkenhead during 1957.
