Gordon Thompson
Gordon belongs to: Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade
Gordon is a Staff nurse at the Freeman Hospital. He joined the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade in August 1999.
Gordon was interviewed by Carl Greenwood on 18 January 2006. The interview took place at Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade and lasted 8 minutes and 4 seconds.
Types of callout
"Quite a bit of falling on the rocks, especially in the summer"
Quite a bit of falling on the rocks, especially in the summer, people slipping down cliffs, rescuing dogs, boats in distress, come back and get details off boats that have been brought back in by the lifeboat and things, helicopter landing sites at all the hospital, RVI and Freeman sites. Beach searches are quite popular at night time- I also work with police occasionally as well. They’ve actually called for people going missing during the night and from nursing homes and things so we sometimes move away from the coast and actually go quite a way inland.
Gordon has 7 memories in the memorynet:
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Brigade members carrying out a training exercise of Collingwood FieldThis memory has these themes:
Roles and Routines | Volunteering
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