A GREATLY DESIRABLE & EARLY (1912)
“LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK & HUMANE SOCIETY’S FIRE MEDAL“
With a rare colour photograph of the recipient in later life. (With Son’s WW2 Casualty Group)
The Medal is Officially Engraved.
To:
“ To JAMES B. MOSS. FOR GALLANT SERVICE. 3rd JULY 1912”
Awarded by:
LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK & HUMANE SOCIETY
Underwriters Room, Exchange Building, Liverpool.
[CITATION]
“For Bravery in Saving Life” Liverpool, 3rd July 1912.
“Silver Medal and certificate of thanks to James B. Moss, William Moss and P.C. 202B (Alex Ferris), also bronze medals and certificate of thanks to each of P.C. 208B (Wilfred J.H. Blinch) and Frederick Richardson for bravely rescuing four inmates from a house on fire in Everton Road.
For Having saved the life of four inmates from a house on fire in Everton Road on 3rd July. Unfortunately two other inmates perished”
The Medal is “Mint State as Issued” with a lovely original cobalt blue-grey patina. Still on its original crimson ribbon & silver claw pin mount, and housed in its original leather, velvet & satin lined crested case, inside which it’s displayed in an internally hinged double sided viewing frame.
A very clever case design.
[BIOGRAPHY]1886-1968 (82)
Mr James Baxendale-Moss was born in Toxteth Park in 1886 and was a book keeper by profession. He married Lily Peeling and had one son Raymond Baxendale Moss in 1925, who as a 2nd Lt in the Army serving in the far east died in 1945 in India.
Son Raymond’s medals are included in this sale and are described below.
Mr Moss was only 26 years old when the fire occurred. The fire which started in the family tobacconists shop and burnt out all the three upper floors was extremely serious and caused major coverage in the Liverpool newspapers of the time.
The fire was also the subject of a full page set of harrowing drawings in the Illustrated Police News of 13th July 1912 which with along with a substantial two column write up both fully illustrate and describe the full horror of the unfolding circumstances. (*click on photo below to enlarge & read*)
Mr Moss lost his mother Mary and Alice one of his sisters in the fire and he himself was also quite badly burned, but fortunately four other members of his family were saved from the fire.
This colour picture of him was taken in 1965 at a family celebration.
He died three years later in 1968 at Caldy, near Heswall on the Wirral.
To put Mr Moss’ Fire Medal award into historical context, it was awarded barely 75 days after the horrific sinking of RMS TITANIC on 14th / 15th April 1912 !
Mr J. Baxendale-Moss’ Fire Medal comes with his casualty son’s WW2 campaign medal group of four, which are described here below.
A WW2 “Casualty” Group of Four
To:
2nd Lt Raymond BAXENDALE-MOSS
9th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers
Att: THE BORDER REGIMENT
DIED of WOUNDS aged 20
21st May 1945
[THE MEDALS]
1939-1945 Star
Burma Star
Defence Medal
War Medal
An Excellent Civil-Military Family Assembly which is sure to appeal to a serious collector of awards to the good people of Liverpool.
KEENLY BUYING ALL SIMILAR FIRE RESCUE AWARDS
The Medal is Officially Engraved.
To:
“ To JAMES B. MOSS. FOR GALLANT SERVICE. 3rd JULY 1912”
Awarded by:
LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK & HUMANE SOCIETY
Underwriters Room, Exchange Building, Liverpool.
[CITATION]
“For Bravery in Saving Life” Liverpool, 3rd July 1912.
“Silver Medal and certificate of thanks to James B. Moss, William Moss and P.C. 202B (Alex Ferris), also bronze medals and certificate of thanks to each of P.C. 208B (Wilfred J.H. Blinch) and Frederick Richardson for bravely rescuing four inmates from a house on fire in Everton Road.
For Having saved the life of four inmates from a house on fire in Everton Road on 3rd July. Unfortunately two other inmates perished”
The Medal is “Mint State as Issued” with a lovely original cobalt blue-grey patina. Still on its original crimson ribbon & silver claw pin mount, and housed in its original leather, velvet & satin lined crested case, inside which it’s displayed in an internally hinged double sided viewing frame.
A very clever case design.
[BIOGRAPHY]1886-1968 (82)
Mr James Baxendale-Moss was born in Toxteth Park in 1886 and was a book keeper by profession. He married Lily Peeling and had one son Raymond Baxendale Moss in 1925, who as a 2nd Lt in the Army serving in the far east died in 1945 in India.
Son Raymond’s medals are included in this sale and are described below.
Mr Moss was only 26 years old when the fire occurred. The fire which started in the family tobacconists shop and burnt out all the three upper floors was extremely serious and caused major coverage in the Liverpool newspapers of the time.
The fire was also the subject of a full page set of harrowing drawings in the Illustrated Police News of 13th July 1912 which with along with a substantial two column write up both fully illustrate and describe the full horror of the unfolding circumstances. (*click on photo below to enlarge & read*)
Mr Moss lost his mother Mary and Alice one of his sisters in the fire and he himself was also quite badly burned, but fortunately four other members of his family were saved from the fire.
This colour picture of him was taken in 1965 at a family celebration.
He died three years later in 1968 at Caldy, near Heswall on the Wirral.
To put Mr Moss’ Fire Medal award into historical context, it was awarded barely 75 days after the horrific sinking of RMS TITANIC on 14th / 15th April 1912 !
Mr J. Baxendale-Moss’ Fire Medal comes with his casualty son’s WW2 campaign medal group of four, which are described here below.
A WW2 “Casualty” Group of Four
To:
2nd Lt Raymond BAXENDALE-MOSS
9th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers
Att: THE BORDER REGIMENT
DIED of WOUNDS aged 20
21st May 1945
[THE MEDALS]
1939-1945 Star
Burma Star
Defence Medal
War Medal
An Excellent Civil-Military Family Assembly which is sure to appeal to a serious collector of awards to the good people of Liverpool.
KEENLY BUYING ALL SIMILAR FIRE RESCUE AWARDS