Awards made at the 1995 Annual Presentation of Awards See page 4 of this issue for a report of the Annual Meetings Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting the Committee of Management has awarded six Honorary Life Governorships, three Bars to the Gold Badge and forty two Gold Badges.

HONORARY LIFE GOVERNOR Mr John Adnams FRICS Southwold Station Branch: Honorary Secretary/ Chairman 1963 to date Colonel George Jackson QBE TD DL AngleStation Branch: Honorary Treasurer 1956-1988, Chairman 1985 to date Dr John de Courcy Ireland PHD LLD Dun Laoghaire Station Branch: Honorary Secretary 1957-1983, Chairman 1983-1990, President 1990 to date Lt Cdr Peter Fulton MBE RD* RNR (RETD) Operations Department: Honorary Instructor, Communications/ Training Adviser BAR TO THE GOLD BADGE Mrs Isabella Daniel St Ives Ladies Guild: Committee Member 1948-1968, Honorary Secretary 1968-1983, Chairman 1983-1993, President 1993 to date Miss Thelma Woodbridge Hove and Portslade Branch: Committee Member 1956-1959, Honorary Secretary 1959 to date Dr Alastair Baird Portpatrick Station Branch: Committee Member 1956- 1969, Honorary Medical Advisor 1969-1981, Chairman 1969 to date GOLD BADGE Mrs Josephine Milne Whitehills Ladies' Lifeboat Guild: Committee Member 1952-1961, Honorary Treasurer 1961-1981, President 1981 to date Mrs Iris Brookes Cannock Branch: Founder Honorary Secretary 1969 to date, Souvenir Secretary 1969 to date Mr Russell Tansley Congleton Branch: Honorary Treasurer 1964 to date Mrs Edna Snowden Heywood Guild: Honorary Secretary 1969-1988, President 1988-1989, Honorary Secretary 1989 to date Mrs Audrey Leonard Whaley Bridge Branch: Founder Chairman 1969 to date Mrs Marjorie Irving Wilmslow Branch: Honorary Secretary 1967-1974, Honorary Treasurer 1974 to date Mrs Jean Bickerdike Fulford Guild: Founder Chairman 1968 to date Mr Philip Vaux BA(ECON) FCA Keighley Branch: Honorary Secretary 1968 to date Mrs Betty Tasker Brown Ponteland Guild: Honorary Secretary 1962-1967, Chairman 1967-1970, Vice President 1970-1986, President 1986 to date Ponteland Luncheon Club: Vice President 1967-1987, President 1987 to date Mrs Vera Cruse Pudsey Guild: Founder Guild Member 1956, Assistant Honorary Treasurer 1961-1978, Honorary Treasurer 1978-1979, Chairman 1979-1983, Committee Member 1983-1990, Chairman 1990 to date, Honorary Secretary 1992 to date Mrs Enid Daniell Abergavenny Branch: Committee MemberWice President 1962 to date Mr Eric Jewell Colwyn Bay Branch: Committee Member 1962-1969, Honorary Secretary 1969-1987, President 1987 to date Mrs Peggy Burlingham Evesham Guild: Founder Chairman 1969-1994, President 1994 to date Mrs Dorothy Rogers SRN SCM HO QN Little and Broad Haven Guild: Honorary Secretary 1968-1978, Honorary Treasurer 1978 to date Mrs Beryl Dean Rhyl Fund Raisers: Committee Member 1962-1967, Honorary Secretary 1967 to date Mr John Harrop Ruthin Branch: Founder Chairman 1968 to date Mrs Ann Ainscow Warwick Ladies' Lifeboat Guild: Founder Member 1967, President 1967-1976, Chairman 1979-1987, Vice President 1987-1988, President 1988 to date Mrs Alison Stancer Warwick Ladies' Lifeboat Guild: Founder Member 1967, Chairman 1967-1979, Committee Member 1979 to date The Lady Byers Godstone and District Branch: Chairman 1962-1988, President 1988 to date Mrs Zora McDonald Horley Ladies' Lifeboat Guild: Guild Member 1965- 1967, Honorary Treasurer 1967 to date Mr Frederick Neale Hove and Portslade Branch: Vice Chairman 1960 to date Mrs Elizabeth Waldron Pangbourne and District Branch: Souvenir Secretary 1969-1983, Honorary Treasurer 1969 to date Lady Leggatt WokingBranch: Honorary Secretary 1968-1971,Chairman 1971 to date Mrs Leslie Grace Central London Committee: Committee Member 1968 to date, Vice Chairman 1972-1974, Chairman 1976-1978 Mrs Greta Greenaway Totteridge Branch: Committee Member 1964 to date, Lifeboat Week Organiser 1964-1995 Mr James Donegan Cork Branch: Honorary Secretary 1955 to date Mr Thomas O'Sullivan PC Lahinch Branch: Honorary Secretary 1963 to date Mrs Helen Miller Wexford/Rosslare Guild: Honorary Secretary 1967 to date Captain Leon Goldwater St Bees Station Branch: Honorary Secretary 1974 to date Captain John Wilson DSC RD RNR Fowey Station Branch: Assistant Honorary Secretary 1966-1967, Honorary Secretary 1967-1983, Honorary Treasurer 1981-1985, Chairman 1992 to date Dr Mike Rees Padstow Station Branch: Honorary Medical Advisor 1970 to date Mr Ron Carbines Selsey Station Branch: Committee Member 1973 to date, Administration Officer 1979 to date Mr Peter Drudge AIB Yarmouth Station Branch: Honorary Treasurer 1971 to date Mr Patrick Leech Belmullet Fundraising Branch: Honorary Secretary 1972-1989, Ballyglass Station Branch: Honorary Secretary 1989 to date Mr Desmond Bateman Courtmacsherry Station Branch: Committee Member 1962-1971, Deputy Launching Authority 1971- 1977, Honorary Secretary 1977 to date Major William Brownlow Cloghey Branch: President 1960-1981, Portaferry Station Branch: Chairman 1969-1994, President 1994 to date Dr William Hill MB BCH LM Portrush Station Branch: Honorary Medical Advisor 1953-1983, Chairman 1983 to date The following were unable to attend and their awards are being made locally: HONORARY LIFE GOVERNOR Mr Wallace Barber Stockport Crew of Lifeboat Auxiliaries: Founder Member 1932-1937, Honorary Secretary 1937-1972, Chairman 1979-1993, President 1993 to date Miss Irene Davies South Caernarfonshire Guild: Guild Member 1946 to date, Honorary Secretary 1958-1980, Vice President 1980-1990, President 1990 to date GOLD BADGE Mrs Ella Lennox Isle of Arran Ladies' Lifeboat Guild: Honorary Secretary 1948-1961, Vice President 1963-1995, Committee Member 1995 to date Mr Alan Speight Workington Guild: Honorary Treasurer 1969 to date Mrs Joan Tennant BEM Cottingham Guild: Founder Member 1969, Honorary Treasurer 1969 to date Mrs Sheila Tucker Crediton Branch: Founder Member 1966, Box Secretary 1966-1974, Honorary SecretaryXFlag Day Organiser 1974 to date Mrs Betsy Willcocks Horley Ladies' Lifeboat Guild: Committee Member 1959-1973, Chairman 1973-1995 (Mrs Willcocks died in February 1995, shortly after receiving her Gold Badge.).