A Rare Animal Life saving pair to Ronnie O’Hara for saving a Dog at Middlesbrough Docks

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A Rare Animal Life saving pair to Ronnie O’Hara for saving a Dog at Middles
  • A Rare Animal Life saving pair to Ronnie O’Hara for saving a Dog at Middles
  • A Rare Animal Life saving pair to Ronnie O’Hara for saving a Dog at Middles
  • A Rare Animal Life saving pair to Ronnie O’Hara for saving a Dog at Middles

  • A Rare Animal Life saving pair to Ronnie O’Hara for saving a Dog at Middlesbrough Docks

  • £1,500.00

£1,500.00

PDSA Gallantry Cross, correctly engraved to the reverse, ‘ Ronnie O’Hara 30.12.1949.

RSPCA Life Saving Medal in Silver, correctly engraved ‘ R. O’Hara 1950’

Condition NEF

Sold with several pieces of ephemera including named presentation certificates for both awards.

The following is taken from a newspaper clipping present with the group

‘Forty dockers shoving with all their strength, prevented the 7,000 ton merchantman Chandpara from crushing to death one of their mates as he went to the rescue of a mongrel dog at Middlesbrough docks yesterday. Ronnie O’Hara, 27, was climbing down an eighteen inch gap separating the ship from the quayside to save the dog drowning twenty feet below.’