The appeal to, the Army, which the Institution makes each year was sent out in August, 1940. The response up to the end of February 1941, is £5562.

That is fourteen times as much as in 1939. The Army is much larger, but the chiet reason for this great increase is gratitude for the work of the life-boats at Dunkirk. Letter after letter has referred to it. One commanding officer wrote; "As my regiment was one of the many that evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk, I, my officers and men do fully realise the marvellous work that the men of the life-boat service did there under the most dangerous and hazardous conditions.".