Posted 5 years ago
allary
(7 items)
They were in a box my late husband had saved for years.The papers are from the King of Norway stating that the medal was for doing a heroic deed. There is also a very old billfold with a few papers in it. It was my husbands grandfather who these belonged to at one time, I was going to post the papers here too but did not think I could on this page.
Yes, Medal for Heroic Deeds. I think yours is King Haakon, 3rd class. I am searching for a similar medal but during the earlier reign of Oscar 11 which was awarded to my grandfather in 1903 as part of a lifeboat crew for rescuing a Norwegian vessel. The ribbon is exactly the same...looking for the ribbon too..he was also given a parchment...but it was written in Norwegian !
..on second thoughts its probably a second class given that it has the crown suspender...hard to see which king it is....post the paperwork and that should clarify it..
Thank you Dalriada. I will post pics of the papers.
https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?178659
Hopefully this link works !
It gives the history of the ' Euphrates'..the distressed vessel. I can only assume that your grandfather was involved in the rescue from another ship or might have been on the ship itself . Thomas Bruce..good Scottish name . Was he from here ? ( Scotland) . The ship was sailing from here ( Glasgow) so possbility that he might have been one of the crew . The king at the time would have been King Haakon V11.
thanks so much for the info.Yes he was from Scotland.