THE Institution has presented to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Hants, a silver medal which it awarded forty-one years ago to Private James Carroll, of the Royal Irish Regiment.

In May, 1893, Private Carroll and three other soldiers, all of whom were patients in the hospital, invalided home from India, put out in a skiff in Southampton Water, and rescued three men whose boat had capsized. A heavy sea was running ; the skiff was overloaded, with seven men on board ; the rescuers were wet through. Invalids as they were, they ran_a grave risk of illness as well as the risk of drowning. When the medal was sent for presentation to Private Carroll, he had been discharged from hospital, and his only address was care of the post office at Kingscourt, Co.

Cavan, Ireland. The Institution wrote to that address, but the letter was never called for, and the medal has never been presented.

As the Royal Irish Regiment has been disbanded, the Institution feels that the hospital has the chief right to the medal and it will be placed in the museum there among other interesting relics..