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Arthur Lowe

It was with great sorrow that the Institution heard the news of the death on April 15 of Arthur Lowe.

Mr Lowe, who will always be affectionately remembered as 'Captain Mainwaring', had been a loyal and greatly valued supporter of the lifeboat service for many years. To members of Twickenham and District branch, which he served as vice-president from 1970 and then, from 1977, as president, he was a personal friend upon whose unstinted help reliance could always be placed. There have been many lifeboat functions both at Twickenham and elsewhere in the country to which Arthur Lowe gave his support, either on his own or, as Captain Mainwaring, at the head of 'Dad's Army'; if his professional life would allow, he would never refuse to use the little spare time he had for the good of the men he considered to be second to none, the lifeboat crews.

In 1977, at the London Boat Show, the RNLI public relations award was presented to Arthur Lowe and other members of that staunch band of lifeboat supporters, the cast of 'Dad's Army'. Maundy Money Ernest Pavey, who had worked for the RNLI for 42 years, first on the coast and finally as machinery examiner, Boreham Wood depot, has presented to the Institution the Maundy Money which he received from HM The Queen in 1981.

RNLI AGM and presentation of awards meeting 1982: Tuesday May 17.

XIV International Lifeboat Conference: Gothenburg, Sweden, June 5 to 9, 1983..