The R.N.L.I, received recognition in the New Year Honours, one award going to an official at the London headquarters and two to a coxswain and a second coxswain.

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• Mr. John R. Atterton, deputy secretary of the R.N.L.I., was born in Newcastle-upon- Tyne in 1919 and spent the early part of his life in Spain. With the advent of the Spanish Civil War he and his family returned to England and in 1936 he joined the Institution's staff as a junior clerk. Since then, except for the war years when he served with the Royal Signals, he has held several appointments. Mr. Atterton has visited many stations and branches and is keenly interested in the international side of the work of the Institution.B.E.M.

• Coxswain Harold J. Hayles has been coxswain of the Yarmouth, I.o.W., life-boat since 1952, having previously served as second coxswain from 1944 and as bowman from 1937.

He first joined the crew in 1933.

• Second Coxswain Henry Philcox of the Shoreham Harbour life-boat holds the joint appointment of second coxswain and motor mechanic, having served as mechanic for 31 years. He previously served as assistant mechanic from 1936 to 1938 and was appointed second coxswain in 1968..