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| Annual membership for 2013 - subscription due 1st January | - UK £20, Overseas (Air Mail) - £28 or by PayPal £30 |
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Please complete the application form (Word document):
Send your application form and remittance made payable to L.S.A.R.S. to the Membership Secretary:
| Membership Secretary
LSARS PO Box 248 Snettisham King's Lynn Norfolk PE31 7TA United Kingdom |
| Research into Awards
(Please don't forget to send a donation with your enquiry) |
Carnegie Hero Fund Trust (UK)
Abbey Park House Abbey Park Place Dunfermline KY12 7PB |
| Fire Brigade Orders, Medals and Decorations
National Awards 1890-2009 (3 megabyte PDF file) Kent Fire Brigades National & Local Awards Awards 1920-2007 (1.5 megabyte PDF file) see the Publications Page of Kent Fire and Rescue Service www.kent.fire-uk.org/history/publications.aspx |
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| Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society
Carol Jones Secretary Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society PO Box 156 HOLYWELL CH6 9DW Tel: 0151 236 1928 www.liverpoolshipwreckandhumanesoc.org (Research enquiries) email: secretary@liverpoolshipwreckandhumanesoc.org |
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| Old Mersey Times
Liverpool and Merseyside from old newspapers. www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/ Miscellaneous medals and awards www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/miscmedalsandawards.html |
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| Order of St John
Museum & Library St John's Gate St Johns Lane Clerkenwell London EC1M 4DA www.orderofstjohn.org email: sandra.stocker@nhq.sja.org.uk . |
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| Royal Humane Society
50/51 Temple Chambers 3/7 Temple Avenue London EC4Y 0HP Tel: 020 7936 2942 Office hours: 1030-1630 Monday to Thursday www.royalhumanesociety.org.uk email: awards@royalhumanesociety.org.uk Note: RHS archive is now in the London Metropolitan Archives. For information and research enquiries see www.royalhumanesociety.org.uk/html/research_request.html |
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| Royal Life Saving Society UK
River House High Street Broom Warwickshire B50 4HN www.caritasdata.co.uk/charity9/ch001129.htm |
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| Royal National Lifeboat Institution
West Quay Road Poole Dorset BH15 1HZ www.rnli.org.uk |
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| The Scout Association
Paul Moynihan Archivist Gilwell Park Chingford London E4 7QW Tel 0208 433 7195/6 |
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| Shipwrecked Fishermen & Mariners'
Royal Benevolent Society 1 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1TL |
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| Society for the Protection of Life From Fire
Records from 1999 are held by the Society: The Secretary Society for the Protection of Life from Fire c/o 15 Mallow Close Horsham West Sussex RH12 5GA www.splf.org.uk Records up to and including 1998 are held by: London Metropolitan Archives 40 Northampton Road London EC1R 0HB Tel: 020 7332 3820 email: ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk | |
| Surf Life Saving Association of GB
First Floor 19 Southernhay West Exeter Devon EX1 1PJ Tel: +44 (0) 8700 753911 Fax: +44 (0) 1392 217808 www.surflifesavers.org.uk email: mail@surflifesavers.org.uk | |
| Research Services
(London Record Offices & Archives - Including Newspaper Library, National Archives, British Library) Janice O'Brien, B.Ed. 11 Ravenscar, Bayham Street, London NW1 0BS Normal Rate - £20.00/hour (General research) Normal Rate - £24.00/hour (British Library research) LSARS Rate - £17.00/hour* * Available to LSARS Members for Lifesaving research (please quote LSARS Membership No.) email: janicekivlanobrien@hotmail.com |
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| Books and Publications | The Naval & Military Press
Unit 10 Dallington Ridgeway Industrial Park Uckfield East Sussex TN22 5QE England Tel 01825 749494 Fax 01825 765701 www.naval-military-press.com email: order.dept@naval-military-press.com |
| Token Publishing Limited
Orchard House Duchy Road Heathpark Honiton Devon EX14 8YD England Tel 01404 44166 Fax 01404 831895 www.medal-news.com email: info@medal-news.com |
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| Auction Houses | Bonham (incorporating Glendining's)
101 New Bond Street London W1Y 9LG Tel 020 7493 2445 Fax 020 7491 9181 www.bonhams.com email: john.millensted@bonhams.com |
| Dix Noonan Web (DNW)
16 Bolton Street London W1J 8BQ Tel 020 7016 1700 Fax 020 7016 1799 www.dnw.co.uk email: auctions@dnw.co.uk |
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| Spink
69 SouthamptonRow Bloomsbury London WC1B 4ET Tel 020 7563 4000 Fax 020 7563 4066 www.spink-online.com email: info@spinkandson.com | |
| Medal Dealers | Chelsea Military Antiques
13/14 Antiquarius 131-141 King’s Road Chelsea London SW3 4PW Tel 020-7352-0308 Fax 020-7352-0308 www.chelseamilitaria.com email: Richard@chelseamilitaria.com |
| C.J. & A.J. Dixon
Military Medallists 23 Prospect Street Bridlington East Yorkshire YO15 2AE Tel 01262 676877/603348 Fax 01262 606600 www.dixonsmedals.co.uk email: chris@dixonsmedals.co.uk |
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| Orders & Medals Research Society
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Orders & Medals Society of America
OMSA |
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