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Civil Decorations for Gallantry. — Details of the Awards. 788ft
exertions in going out in the Poolbeg Lifeboat and rescuing two men (the rest of the crew having been lost) from
the schooner Robert Brown, which had become unmanageable in a gale, and had been driven ashore near the
Pigeonhouse Port, in Dublin Bay, on the night of the 27th October 1880.
125 Captain Trevor was awarded the Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane Society for an ineffectual effort to save
an officer from drowning at Rawul Pindee on the 1st April 1887.
126 Major Verner was awarded the Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane Society for having, on the 12th August
1882, swum out and dived and brought to the surface a man who had sunk in a fit while bathing at Totland Bay,
Isle of Wight.
127 Captain Wade was awarded the Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane Society for saving a man from drowning
in the Medway, at Chatham, on the 20th May 1888.
129 Colonel Walker was awarded the Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane Society for having, on the 3rd January
1869, jumped into the River Alipore, Bhootan, and rescued two persons who were in imminent danger of drowning.
130 Captain Wight was awarded the Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane Society for rescuing a man from
drowning in the Manipore River on the 7th May 1892.
235 Lt. Colonel Woodhall was awarded the Silver Medal of the Royal Humane Society for saving the life of Assis-
tant Surgeon E. Gibson, who had been carried out to sea while bathing at Duncannon Fort, Ireland, on the 9th
Jnne 1859.
135 Captain Wyuyard was awarded the Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane Society for attempting to save a
Swiss peasant in Lake Davos, Switzerland, on the 9th December 1893, when the lake was frozen over. Captain
Wynyard nearly lost his own life in the attempt, and when rescued was insensible.

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