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An Irish Gold Medal.

The second gold medal to be awarded for conspicuous gallantry since the outbreak of war, has been won by Coxswain John Boyle, of Arranmore, on the north west of Ireland. For the same service the motor mechanic was awarded the silver medal and each of the other six members of the crew the bronze medal. The life-boat was out for sixteen hours to the help of a Dutch steamer, which had stranded orj a reef over twenty miles away. It was in December. The wind was at hurricane force. The seas were mountainous, lifting the life-boat to the height of the steamer's masts, and it took her four hours to rescue 18 men..