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Royal Aeronautical Society Award

FLIGHT SERGEANT B. BREACH, of No. 228 Squadron R.A.F., has been awarded the Alan Marsh medal for the rescue of the crew of five of the North Carr lightvessel in December 1959. It was after putting out in an attempt to render help to the North Carr lightvessel that the Broughty Ferry life-boat capsized with the loss of the whole of her crew on the 8th of December. The Alan Marsh medal can be awarded by the Royal Aeronautical Society " to a British pilot in recognition of an outstanding helicopter pilotage achieve- ment "..