Bondi lifesavers honoured for long service
Surf Life Saving Australia recently presented its long service awards to Bondi lifesavers who have devoted 50 or more years as volunteers to the movement at the club’s annual Veterans Day function.
Recipients of the awards were:
Fifty years service: Keith Brown, Allan Dibben, Rod Harvey, David Hoggett, Mervyn Lester, Bob Milne, Keith Morley, John Peard, Terry Ryan, Allan Scott, Alan Seeney and Keiran Speed.
Sixty years service: Mervyn Cragg, Neil “Dusty” Miller, John Vandenbergh.
Seventy years service: Norman Bennett, John Hughes, Ted Lever.
Eighty years service: Clifton “Tim” Dingle.
Mr Dingle, 98, lives at Sawtell on the North Coast and did not attend the function. However, club life member Allan Scott will visit him shortly to present the citation.
Another highlight of the function was the screening of the segment on the 1954 Royal Surf Carnival at Bondi, which was attended by the Queen and Prince Philip and featured in a four-part documentary series titled On Tour With The Queen about the 1953-54 Coronation Tour and shown on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom earlier this year.
