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I'm on holiday in the UK and managed to snaffle this quaint group. Robert Wilberforce Myburgh was a South African who served in both the Boer and Great wars as an officer in the Royal Navy. He received the Royal Humane Society certificate for saving a sailor in 1904 and retired as a Captain.

Great Find Rory...…

Cannot wait till you get home and we get to read his story...…

Mike

It's a rather interesting one Mike. Which is what attracted me to the group

He also famously displayed a "want" of judgement!

Rory wrote: I'm on holiday in the UK and managed to snaffle this quaint group. Robert Wilberforce Myburgh was a South African who served in both the Boer and Great wars as an officer in the Royal Navy. He received the Royal Humane Society certificate for saving a sailor in 1904 and retired as a Captain.

That was the "other" reason for buying the group Frank. I had a good gander at his service record. It highlighted the incident you allude to and more.

Well, never mind, he was only human and making a mistake or two, then, as now, is simply part of life.