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    The Royal Humane Society is a British charity which promotes lifesaving intervention. It was founded in England in 1774 as the Society for the Recovery...
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    and Massachusetts Humane Society). The first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), based on the British Royal Society for the Prevention...
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  • The Royal Humane Society of Australasia (RHSA), formerly the Victorian Humane Society, is an Australian charity dedicated to the recognition of those...
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    7 November 2014. "Royal Humane Society Bronze Medals, taken from the Annual Report for 2005". Life Saving Awards Research Society. Archived from the...
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    The Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, better known as the Massachusetts Humane Society was founded in 1786 by a group of Boston citizens...
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    Medals for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, original available at the Royal Humane Society in London CNS Archives Lost at Sea Brown, Cassie (1976) A Winter's...
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    founded the Royal Humane Society as a campaigning group for first aid and resuscitation. Gradually, branches of the Royal Humane Society were set up in...
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    The Royal Humane Society awarded Gordon-Brown the 2005 Stanhope Gold Medal, the highest Commonwealth award for bravery. In addition The Royal Humane Society...
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  • Australia in June 1919. Wimbridge was awarded a Bronze Medal by the Royal Humane Society of Australasia in 1925, for conspicuous bravery when he risked his...
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  • Times and received money from the passengers and a medal from the Royal Humane Society. Blair (and Charles Lightoller, who survived the Titanic disaster)...
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  • In November 1943, he was awarded a Certificate of Merit from the Royal Humane Society of Australasia for his bravery. For his contribution to football...
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    techniques to revive persons considered dead, and the Royal Humane Society had been formed as the Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned. In...
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    English physician and philanthropist, and one of the founders of the Royal Humane Society. He worked to spread the practice of resuscitation, and to relieve...
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  • of Royal National Lifeboat Institution Gallantry Medals and how they were won 1824–1996. London: Spink & Son Ltd. p. 146. "The Royal Humane Society". The...
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    increase their compactness and efficiency. Volanthen was awarded the Royal Humane Society's bronze medal in 2012 for a rescue attempt of a diver in a French...
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    February 1818) was an English Nonconformist physician, a founder of the Royal Humane Society and philosophical writer. Thomas Cogan was born at Rothwell, Northamptonshire...
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    The invention gained Spenser the honorary silver medal from the Royal Humane Society. Leonardo da Vinci's design sketches for a safety wheel First studies...
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  • Frederick Bull) founded the Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned (which later became the Royal Humane Society). Following the successes...
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    consisting of a pair of bellows and a tube were provided by the Royal Humane Society of London and placed at various points along the Thames. Snuff is...
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    in similar circumstances). She was awarded a silver medal by the Royal Humane Society, and also a gold watch and chain from the British Government. According...
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  • knighthoods and gallantry awards." Some private societies in the United Kingdom (such as the Royal Humane Society) have permission from the monarch to award...
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    fourteen years. For this, he was made a distinguished member of the Royal Humane Society, granting him a medal and access to food. The painting was bequeathed...
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    consisting of a pair of bellows and a tube were provided by the Royal Humane Society of London and placed at various points along the Thames. Furthermore...
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  • RHSA may refer to: Royal Humane Society of Australasia, an Australian charity Rosedale Heights School of the Arts, a high school in Toronto, Canada Red...
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    William Manley (category Royal Army Medical Corps officers)
    his time in New Zealand he also received the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society for rescuing a man from drowning, and after the siege of Paris he...
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    Chapter Coffee-house in St Paul's Churchyard, where they founded the Royal Humane Society. Some methods and equipment were similar to methods used today, such...
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    "blew hard". The woman was apparently revived. In the 1780s the Royal Humane Society installed resuscitation kits, including smoke enemas, at various...
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    was credited with saving over 30 lives and was a recipient of the Royal Humane Society's Bronze Medal and testimonial on vellum. Mary Norris was born in...
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    Stanhope Medal (category Royal charities of the United Kingdom)
    Kingdom's Royal Humane Society for the most courageous and heroic rescue that was made in the previous year. It is named in memory of British Royal Navy officer...
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    eight OBIs, two IOMs, 16 BEMs, 10 Indian Defence Service Medals, a Royal Humane Society Medal, 105 mentions in dispatches and 118 assorted commendations...
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