I'm researching a bravery award for Richard Landeg.
There's family talk of the awarding of a medal but nobody living has actually seen it.
The incident involved saving a girl from an oncoming railway loco in Cwmafan/Port Talbot before his emigration to USA in 1927 aged 21yrs.
An American newspaper article reported the award being made by the British Humane Society (which doesn't exist as far as I can establish).
I've recently spent a few hours looking at the Royal Humane Society records before having a lightbulb moment in realising their awards are, essentially, for rescue from drowning or resuscitation (water/gas).
The archivist told me that I am not the first to go there under this mistaken belief and that many bravery awards are erroneously reported as being from the RHS.
So, what other bodies of that era could have awarded a medal?
Steve.
