Queen recalls becoming first person in Commonwealth to receive lifesaving award 80 years ago

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Her Majesty spoke to the Royal Life Saving Society on a video call, discussing her lifesaving award in 1941.

Sarah Downs, 20, a student who saved a little boy's life when she was on duty as a lifeguard at a swimming pool in Exeter in 2018, asked about her memories of achieving her award.Speaking about the gentlemen's club in Mayfair the Queen replied:"Well, it's a very long time ago."And I suppose I didn't really actually realise quite what I was doing, you know because I think I must have been 12 or something, 12 or 14, or something like that.

The Queen asked Ms Downs, a physiotherapy student at Manchester Metropolitan University, about her own experiences of lifeguarding and how she came to win the society's Russell Medal in 2018, for resuscitating the boy.She added:"So when I came back to the shallow end, being notified of this child under the water and then getting him out of the pool, I completed CPR on him to resuscitate and bring him back around.

 

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