The 2025 Memorial Pin memorialises those submariners who have Crossed the Bar over the period 1st January - 31st December 2024.
Gold Poppy recipients will have been either a serving UK submariner OR a WRS subscribing member who was also a UK submarine veteran at the time of their death.
There was one submarine loss in 1925, HMS M1 sank after a collision with SS Vidar off Start Point on 12th November 1925
WRS have been informed of 160 submariners crossing the bar in 2024 of which, the 11 listed below qualify for a Gold Poppy
Gold Poppy Recipients
Robin 'Bob' Brisley
Leslie David
James Currie
Geoff 'Yorkie' Holmes
Michael Farrow
John McKay
Keith Marriner
Tim Winter
Vic Evason
Joe Harris
James Thornton (Serving Submariner)