ON the morning of Easter Sunday a medical student and a nursing sister went out in a canoe from Bognor Regis.

When they were half a mile off shore they capsized. The wind, from the west, was strong, the sea rough, and the tide was carrying the canoe away.

Four men saw the accident and went at once to the rescue. Two of them, Mr. R. G. Pennicott, aged twenty-one, and his brother, Mr. S. H. Pennicott, aged sixteen, of Craigwell, near Bognor, launched a ten-feet dinghy and rowed out. Two other brothers, Lieut.-Col.

A. C. Stacker and Major P. Stocker, launched a still smaller boat, an eight- feet dinghy, but she was swamped in the breakers, and they had to wade ashore. The first dinghy got safely through them, but the two young men in her were in evident danger. It looked as if, at any moment, they would capsize, and the police asked three men to go out in a fishing boat. This they did, but the Pennicotts handled their boat with great skill, and before the fishing boat reached them they had reached the man and woman and taken them on board their dinghy. They brought them ashore without mishap.

The Institution awarded its thanks inscribed on vellum to each of the two rescuers, MR. R. G. PENNICOTT, and MR. L. H. PENNICOTT. To Lieut.-Col.

Stocker and to Major Stocker, it sent letters of thanks, and a letter of thanks to the three men in the fishing boat..