With the passing a few weeks ago of Mr. Jack Hawkes, of Ramsgate, the R,N.L.I. has lost one of the few remaining life-boatmen who could claim to have taken part in the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. He was among the crew of the Ramsgate life-boat when she voyaged into 'the jaws of hell' to rescue troops under enemy bombardment. On 6th February the ashes of Mr. Hawkes—he was 84—were scattered on the waters near the long line of surf that marks the Goodwin Sands..