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The Institution and the War

WE have the pleasure of giving a list of the Officers and members of the Staff, or of a Permanent Crew, of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION who have been called up or who have volunteered for service with His Majesty's Forces during the War :— Commander HOWARD P. J. ROWLEY, R.N., Deputy Chief Inspector of Life-boats, Special Service.

Commander CHARLES H. FORBES, R.N., District Inspector o£ Life-boats, Navigation School, Portsmouth.

Major A. C. GUST, District Organizing Secretary for Greater London, Somerset Light Infantry.

Lieut.-Commander W. G. RIGG, R.N., District Inspector o£ Life-boats, Mine Sweeping, Dover.

Lieut.-Commander H. G. INNES, R.N., District Inspector of Life-boats, H.M.S. Amphitrite, cruiser.

Lieut.-Commander P.P.M. FELLOWES, R.N., District Organizing Secretary, Assistant Inspector of Steel in the Ordnance Department.

Lieutenant EDWARD D. DRURY, B.N.R., District Inspector of Life-boats, H.M.S. Euryalus, cruiser.

*Mr. H. WALLNGTON, Assistant District Organizing Secretary for Greater London, University of London Officers' Training Corps.

* Volunteered.

*Mr. J. P. GRANT, Assistant Surveyor of Marine Engines, Motor Transport Driver, Array Service Corps.

*Mr. C. H. MAPLESON, Clerk, Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps.

Mr. G. E. HAYWARD. Housekeeper, Master - at - Arms, H.M.S. Edinburgh Castle, Armed Merchant Vessel.

Mr. C. DIXON, Messenger, Private, 2nd Coldstream Guards.

Mr. J. E. MARTIN, Chief Rigger, 1st Class Petty Officer, S.S. ex Baralong, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary Vessel.

Mr. E. W. CALVER, Storehouseman, Stoker—Petty Officer.

Mr. 3. NUNN, Rigger, Able Seamen, H.M.S. Albion, Battleship.

Mr. R. HUMPHREYS, Assistant Storehouseman, Private, 2nd Middlesex Regiment.

Mr. J. A. ATKINSON, Mate of Padstow Tug, Able Seaman, H.M.S. Majestic, Battleship.

Mr. J. ROBINSON, Member of Spurn Crew, Able Seaman.

Mr. W. A. ATKINSON, 2nd Engineer, Angle Steam Life-boat, Private, 6th Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

* Volunteered.

In addition to the above the following volunteered for service, but failed to pass the medical examination :—Mr.

George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution; Mr. C. H. Scoffield, Clerk; and Mr. L Nisbett, Temporary Boy Clerk.