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Marie De Sombreuil
MARIE-MAURINE VIROT DE SOMBREUIL - daughter of governor of Invalides, imprisoned with him, saved his life by drinking a glass of blood. Date: 1774 - 1823

Mouron De Rety
CONSTANT MOURON DE RETY Frenchman who not only saved the lives of 14 shipwrecked persons, but won the favour of Louis XVIII by his devotion to the Bourbon family. Date: 1761 - ?

Pierre Dumoulin
PIERRE DUMOULIN French protestant churchman, saved from the Bartholomew massacre by a servant, found refuge in England and Holland. Date: 1568 - 1658

Marquise De Montesson
CHARLOTTE JEANNE BERAUD de la HAYE de RIOU, marquise de MONTESSON - wife of duc d Orleans, saved from the guillotine by Josephine, author of several plays. Date: 1737 - 1805

Jan Van Mildert
JAN VAN MILDERT Flemish artist from Antwerp, saved from oblivion only by having his portrait done by van Dyck. Date: 17th century

Felicien Mallefille
JEAN-PIERRE FELICIEN MALLEFILLE - French writer, consul at Lisbon, sometime love of George Sand, saved Versailles library during the Commune. Date: 1813- 1868

Bela Kun in 1919
BELA KUN Hungarian radical statesman, Bolshevik, founder of Hungarian communist party. None of which saved him from being liquidated by Stalin. Date: 1886 - 1937

John Morley MP pulled out by Labby and Campbell-Bannerman
The Story of Johnny Head-in-Air (cont.). John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (18381923) - British Liberal statesman

The Lady of the Lake - Old Soak fished out of the water
The Lady of the Lake - A Drunken Old Soak is fished out of the water by a dapper gent in a punt. Her bottle heads for the bottom and perhaps the dunking has sobered her up! Date: circa 1915

Salt Lake City - Utah, USA - Seagull Monument, Temple Block
The Seagull Monument - a small monument situated immediately in front of the Salt Lake Assembly Hall on Temple Square, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Blackburn Blackburn, N9828, saved from going over the side of HMS Furious (47) c.1928

Lusitania - Saved and Missing
A page from The Illustrated London News, illustrated with photographs of some of the survivors of the Lusitania, along with pictures of some of those who perished

Moses saved from the water. 18th c. Maiolica

Saint Blaise
SAINT BLAISE physician, later bishop of Sebaste (Armenia), who saved a womans only pig from wolves and later received its head as thanks, as shown here Date: died circa 316

Scaling ladder rescue drill demonstration, WW2
The position in which a line is attached to a scaling ladder in order to perform a rescue from the upper floors of a building

Saved!. Illustration shows a beautiful, partially nude, winged woman goddess rescuing an airman who has fallen out of an airplane, and giving him a kiss. Date 1910 December 14

Federal Theatre Project presents The drunkard or the fallen saved Originally produced by PT Barnum in his museum: A rip-roaring melodrama with thrills & laughter!

Joan of Arc saved France - Women of America, save your country - Buy War Savings Stamps. Poster showing Joan of Arc raising a sword. Date 1918

Fearful balloon adventure - saved by a Grimsby fishing smack A woman murdered by her son and daughter. Front page of British illustrated newspaper shows two stories

The return, or saved from the wreck. Print showing. Date c1872

Hurrah! The country is saved again!. Illustration shows Uncle Sam and Columbia dancing in a line with figures representing Cuba, Porto Rico, Labor, Capital, Farmer, Philippines

Vision can be saved 50% of babies born with syphilis have impaired eyesight : Consult a reputable physician. Poster encouraging examinations for syphilis. Date 1936 or 1937

Man rescuing woman and baby from the sea during a shipwreck
They re Saved! They re Saved! Man rescuing woman and baby from the sea during a shipwreck in a storm Date: ca. 1865

Two lifeboat coxswains, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Retiring lifeboat coxswain John Byford (left) and new coxswain Thomas Bloom, pictured at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. John Byford had been cox from 1929 and Thomas Bloom, known locally as Puggy

Honourable Artillery Company lifeboat, Walton, Essex
The first National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, donated by and named after The Honourable Artillery Company whose Drama Club sponsored it, was launched in 1884

Prince George naming the new lifeboat, Walton, Essex
Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902-1942), at the naming ceremony of the new lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. The boat was named EMED

A Penny Saved is a Penny Gained
" From " Proverbs", a series of postcards. " 1904

Kissing a Cow
Elizabeth, pictured with a cow and her calf, which she saved from death. Elizabeth has a field at the back of her house where she looks after her larger animals. Date: 1960s

Hand-Feeding a Puppy
A tiny premature or runt puppy is hand reared, by inserting a fine plastic feeding tube into its mouth. The lives of thousands of puppies each year are saved by this method. Date: late 1960s

The Distress Signal
Whilst captured by the Iroquois, Captain Mac-Kinsty makes the distress signal and is saved by the Chief, who has recognised him as a Brother. 1890s

Saved from the Snow. Date: circa 1910s

Wartime poster, conservation of wheat for war effort
Wartime poster recommending the conservation of wheat. Think!! For every 100, 000 tons of wheat saved by economy 28, 000 troops can be rationed and transported from America. Eat one loaf a week less

Chart Room key of Titanic lamp trimmer
The Chart Room key and brass identity tag of Samuel Hemming, a lamp trimmer on the RMS Titanic. Hemming was saved from the sea by Lifeboat no.4 and had this key and others in his pocket

Lear / Nonsense / Man North
There was an Old Man of the North, who fell into a basin of broth; But a laudable cook, fished him out with a hook, which saved that Old Man of the North

A stormy night at the listening in
Cartoon, A stormy night at the listening in. A building saved by the wireless aerial during an equinoctial gale. Please note

Nelsons devotion to his friend Hardy
Captain Horatio Nelson ordering the Minerva to slow under the guns of the Spaniards in order that Hardy might be saved. Hardy had gone to the rescue of a sailor who had fallen overboard

Flight-Commander Francis E. T. Hewlett: Saved after his plane went down after the attack on Cuxhaven

The master of the Ortega, who saved his ship from a German cruiser: Captain D. R. Kinneir

Kwei-Sing Saved
KWEI-SING, one of several gods of litrerature, is saved from a watery grave by a Ngau, a species of benevolent sea- monster

Louvains town hall saved
Illustration showing crowds of German officers looting the Belgian town of Louvain during World War I. The city was devastated by the German invasion in September 1914

The rescue at Boscombe, yacht the Hally Lise against the sea
A small yacht, the Hally Lise was blown to shore in stromy weather at Boscombe, Hants. Her two occupants Dr G. E Reeves and M. Pierre Keroux were saved by the Swanage lifeboatmen

Wittelsbach at Verona
Emperor Friedrich I is saved from defeat at Verona by Otto von Wittelsbach, who plants the imperial banner on the battlements

Christins De Bolsena
SAINT CHRISTINA DE BOLSENA Italian girl who vexed her father by throwing out his pagan images : she was saved when he threw her into a lake, but was martyred none the less

Alexis Nord Attacked
Attacked by an angry mobd, unpopular president Alexis Nord is saved by the French minister

Genevieve Saved by Deer
Genevieve de Brabant, heroine of a popular French legend, is saved by a deer when she is abandoned in the forest

Society Enrollment Doc
A large certificate for the Manchester Unity of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Widows and Orphans Fund, showing a widow and family saved from Want

St Paul & Jailor
The Philippian jailor falls down on his knees before St Paul and Silas and asks what he must do to be saved. (Acts XVI: 16-34)

Cross-Channel on Top
A French inventor proposes an amphibious train which rides over any water that flows in its way. Think, all that money invested in the Channel Tunnel could have been saved !

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