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WAR medals won by a hero wireless operator on the Titanic could fetch £10,000 at auction later this month. ‌

Harold Bride made one of the world’s first SOS signals after the “unsinkable” liner struck an iceberg on April 15, 1912, with the loss of more than 1500 passengers and crew. ‌

The Marconi wireless operator , aged 22, whose actions helped save 700 lives, survived by clinging to an upturned boat after he was washed overboard. ‌

He later served in World War I.

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In 1920, he married Lucy Downie, a teacher from Scotland, and the couple moved to Scone, near Perth.

They later to Glasgow where he worked as a live-in caretaker and manager at Provan Hall Museum for several years until his death in 1956.

Bride’s Great War medals, toge

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