Two life-boatmen of the Kirkcudbright crew serving with the navy, have been awarded the British Empire Medal. George Parkhill, son of the coxswain, serving as officer steward on one of H.M. trawlers, won it for rescuing wounded men from a blazing oil tanker in the North Sea. George Davidson, who was nineteen years of age at the time, and serving as a telegraphist, won it for climbing four flights of stairs in a bombed and blazing building in Plymouth, to rescue a man who was trapped by the fire. He took part in the St. Nazaire raid and is.