A Beaumaris volunteer with 54 years’ service attends at Buckingham Palace.
Gareth Parry a volunteer at Beaumaris lifeboat station has attended a garden party at Buckingham Palace hosted by the King and Queen supported by other members of the Royal Family to commemorate his fifty-four years of volunteering with the lifeboat.
Gareth in his years of service originally as crew and emergency mechanic on the All-Weather Lifeboat which was withdrawn from service in 1991. He was a helm on the Blue Peter Two Inshore Lifeboats, being one of the earliest lifeboat men to receive a Gold Blue Peter badge He is currently a Launching Authority at the station.
In the course of his time with the RNLI, he has been the recipient of two bravery awards. He has been a RNLI Standard bearer for over 40 years. Displaying the standard on many occasions including at St. David Hall Cardiff for a Remembrance Day service where he represented all the Welsh stations. One of his proudest memories is carrying the Queen Mother’s Lifeboat Standard in a Remembrance Day service at Albert Hall in London in front of Her late Majesty the Queen when he represented all the U.K stations.
His two proud offspring Tomos and Sioned a Michelin Star Chief and an Art Professional respectively both currently live in London, and Tomos was able to accompany him to the palace
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