LIFEBOAT V.C.
The first British “Lifeboat V.C.” of the war, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's Gold Medal, has been awarded to Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber, for the rescue on February 12 of the crew of nine of the trawler St Gurth, of Grimsby, which went ashore in a gale. Each of the five members of the lifeboat’s crew received the silver medal.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 7
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64LIFEBOAT V.C. Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 7
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