Bridlington RLNI volunteers receive King's Coronation Medal

Volunteers for the Bridlington RLNI were honoured with the King's Coronation Medal.

Volunteer lifeboat operations manager Steve Clarke presented the medals to the volunteers who were members of the lifeboat crew with five years of service at the time of the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in May 2023.

The UK has issued more than 400,000 of these medals to people including frontline emergency workers.

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Among those who were able to attend the presentation was Bridlington volunteer helm Ash Traves, who attended with his family covering four generations. Grandmother Margaret has been a volunteer at the station for many years and dad, Chris, is a launch authority and shore crew volunteer at the station. Ash also had his two young sons with the family and it is hoped that they might become the fourth generation of volunteers at Bridlington RNLI.

Also receiving the King's Coronation medal was Bridlington RNLI volunteer mechanic James Mather, who attended the presentation with his wife and newborn son.

James said: "To receive the King's Medal at the station was our first trip out of the house as a family of three, and will be remembered as a special occasion. Lucas was only 10 days old at the time".