Commander Philip Edward Vaux, O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. (Ret.), died at Lymington on 23rd January, 1966. He was aged 70.

Retiring from the Royal Navy in 1920, Commander Vaux joined the RNLI the following year, and after serving as a District Inspector in Ireland, Scotland, and on the east coast of England, was appointed Chief Inspector of Life-boats in 1939. He re-enlisted on the outbreak of World War II. In 1944 he resumed his appointment with the RNLI., and retired in 1951. Commander Vaux held the Institution's bronze medal for his initiative, leadership and courage in searching for the crew of a trawler when it was wrecked on the west of Ireland in February 1926..