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    Default Re: MN member who subsequently became RNLI coxswain

    Ivan ,yes a lot of engineers did not go to any sea training school.

    But the greatest thing about the schools and later our time at sea was that it gave you purpose in life, and often a career.
    Being in Catering I never looked back and once ashore spent my working life in hospitality.
    The time at sea training school and at sea taught me so much that life ashore was so much easier in what is a very demanding industry.
    Happy daze John in Oz.

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    Thanks Doc. I will follow that up.

    All I can say is the records I have seem to be two copies of two different "C.R 10"s. I cannot say as to the material they are made of but they look like photographs of the front and back of cards rather than paper records. They both have the top right hand corner clipped on both cases and, assuming the card shows front at top and back at bottom, there is what appears to be a hole in the upper left side suggesting the "cards" are filed on a circular rod holder-perhaps in a file drawer?.. So-are central records rather than documents issued to the seaman.

    The top line of both has the printed words "No. of Identity Certificate" entered which have the manuscript entries I have mentioned.(Photos of both these cards are attached to my original post". The same number of " Identity Certificate" appears written on the front of the card as is printed across the photo of the seaman attached to the centre of the back of the card. From my memory of the man over my lifetime,me born (1943) to his death (1989) both pictures are of the same man despite being obviously taken at different times. (The second front card details omit his second name of Charles but both cards bear the same date of birth and must be the same man.)

    Thus, I believe, whatever the "Identity Certificate No." is, (discharge or identity), Grandad had TWO of them. This could suggest two identities (for two periods of service or perhaps by mistake) or relate to two different discharges.

    Nevertheless, I will as you suggest, get in touch with Southampton Archives who can sort this out.

    Thank you for making me look more carefully at the evidence in my hands!

    Ken Baugh
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    Out of interest, presume this i about him ?

    1934
    Bronze Medal awarded to Assistant Motor Mechanic Robert C Brown for gallantry going overboard in his oilskins, life belt and sea boots, and holding on to an unconscious man who had been flung into the sea from the yacht Hally Lise until the lifeboat was able to pick them up on 19 March 1934. https://www.swanagelifeboat.org.uk/history

    https://www.swanagelifeboat.org.uk/b...es-brown-12-23

    Robert Charles Brown BEM

    Lifeboat Scrapbook: Robert Charles Brown BEM

    K.

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    Yes Thats my Grandad. Also in 1943, silver-gilt medal of the French lifeboat service for involvement in rescuing three lives from French Naval launch "Chasseur 5". And BEM on retirement for service to RNLI.

    lifeboatscrapbook.blogspot.com/2009/robert-charles-brown

    Quite a man

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    His son was also interesting.

    Robert Brown
    Biography

    He was born and died in Swanage, Dorset, where his father had been coxswain of the town's lifeboat. In 1992, a lifeboat was named "Robert Charles Brown" after his father.


    Robert Brown was born on July 23, 1921 in Swanage, Dorset, England as Robert James Brown. He was an actor, known for A View to a Kill (1985), Octopussy (1983) and Licence to Kill (1989). He was married to Rita Becker. He died on November 11, 2003 in Swanage.

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0114533/bio

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    Quote Originally Posted by kenneth baugh View Post
    Yes Thats my Grandad. Also in 1943, silver-gilt medal of the French lifeboat service for involvement in rescuing three lives from French Naval launch "Chasseur 5". And BEM on retirement for service to RNLI.

    lifeboatscrapbook.blogspot.com/2009/robert-charles-brown

    Quite a man


    I could not open your link, think it is the same as in #23:

    K.

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    No Keith. Sorry, it was an incomplete address

    https://lifeboatscrapbook.blogspot.c...les-brown.html

    It includes a photo of a painting of the man now displayed in Swanage lifeboat house

    Ken

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    Thanks, touch wood more will come.

    Keith.

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    Further apologies Keith.

    this blog appears to have changed and now deleted the page I was referring to. Nevertheless you have most information I can give about Robert Charles Brown

    Ken Baugh

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    Cheers.

    Keith.

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