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Sheringham Lifeboat Crew Member David Williams

SHERINGHAM LIFEBOAT Crew Member David Williams is pictured with his son Robert and daughter Caroline, who helped him in coming to the aid of a drowning man while on holiday in Minorca in September last year. Mr Alan Redhead, of Leeds, was also on holiday at the Spanish island resort when he became trapped between rocks in heavy seas and lost consciousness. Mr Williams, who was strolling along the beach with his wife Audrey and the two children, spotted Mr Redhead, dashed into the sea to his rescue and was himself battered against the rocks, receiving several bad cuts. He found Mr Redhead underwater and, when he realised that he had stopped breathing, applied artifical respiration before dragging the 13 stone man to the beach. Robert and Caroline, meanwhile, raced for a mile across soft sand to fetch a doctor. Both Mr Williams and Mr Redhead are now fully recovered. In a letter to Mr Williams, the then director of the RNU, Rear Admiral W J Graham, said: All of us here at headquarters were very impressed by your immediate response to the situation. Without hesitation and regard to your own safety you went to the rescue. Mr Redhead owes his life to you and your two children . . ..

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