can you help?

macafee2 · 3rd September 2016, 10:18

Can you help? this is from someone at work

If you have twitter or facebook accounts can you post this?

Penlee Lifeboat Gold Medal Stolen
Coxswain William Trevelyan Richards and an RNLI gold medal
Page Content
Dear all,

I need your help.
About 2 months ago it came to light that the Gold medal posthumously awarded to 'Trevelyan Richards' the Coxswain of the Penlee Lifeboat after the disaster in 1981 where all of the crew were lost to the sea has been stolen. The medal was in the secure archives at RNLI HQ Poole, protected by several layers of security, yet it still got taken. My father was one of the crew lost when I was only 10 years old, thankfully I have my father's medal safe. I am now the heritage officer at Penlee lifeboat station and this medal is a huge loss to the community in Cornwall. It is the only recorded award of an RNLI gold medal Posthumously out of the 150 gold awards made during the 200 year history of the RNLI. The medal holds great significance to the events of the time and symbolises what our crews risk their own lives for every time their pagers go off.

THE ASK:
All of those who have facebook and twitter please go to the Penlee lifeboat pages and share this story like crazy to appeal to the public for information and maybe the person responsible to come to their senses and return it to us. Links attached.

Many thanks to you all for helping us during this sad time.

macafee2

Mason6 · 3rd September 2016, 15:57

Done and, may I say, I hope it gets traced and recovered what a horrible thing for someone to do!

3rd September 2016, 10:18	#1
macafee2 This is my second home Rover 75 Saloon & Tourer Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Lincoln Posts: 14,912 Thanks: 1,630 Thanked 3,032 Times in 2,181 Posts	can you help? Can you help? this is from someone at work If you have twitter or facebook accounts can you post this? Penlee Lifeboat Gold Medal Stolen Coxswain William Trevelyan Richards and an RNLI gold medal Page Content Dear all, I need your help. About 2 months ago it came to light that the Gold medal posthumously awarded to 'Trevelyan Richards' the Coxswain of the Penlee Lifeboat after the disaster in 1981 where all of the crew were lost to the sea has been stolen. The medal was in the secure archives at RNLI HQ Poole, protected by several layers of security, yet it still got taken. My father was one of the crew lost when I was only 10 years old, thankfully I have my father's medal safe. I am now the heritage officer at Penlee lifeboat station and this medal is a huge loss to the community in Cornwall. It is the only recorded award of an RNLI gold medal Posthumously out of the 150 gold awards made during the 200 year history of the RNLI. The medal holds great significance to the events of the time and symbolises what our crews risk their own lives for every time their pagers go off. THE ASK: All of those who have facebook and twitter please go to the Penlee lifeboat pages and share this story like crazy to appeal to the public for information and maybe the person responsible to come to their senses and return it to us. Links attached. Many thanks to you all for helping us during this sad time. macafee2

3rd September 2016, 15:57	#2
Mason6 Loves to post V6 Classic SE Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 355 Thanks: 472 Thanked 137 Times in 79 Posts	Done and, may I say, I hope it gets traced and recovered what a horrible thing for someone to do! __________________ Regards, Martyn *Rover 75 Contemporary SE CDTI in Starlight Silver which was the 49th out of 849 produced*