BEM for RNLI fundraiser Mo

Mo Morrison is pictured with Ladies Lifeboat Guild members. (Wallace Ferrier)

More than 30 years of hard work and fundraising was recognised at the weekend when Mo Morrison, former president of the town’s lifeboat guild, was presented with the British Empire Medal.

Mo received the accolade, awarded in the King’s Birthday Honours, from Pat Sawers, Lord-lieutenant of Angus in a ceremony attended by family and friends at Gayfield.

The Lord-lieutenant highlighted Mo’s career with the guild, which she joined in 1989, becoming vice-president in 2002 and president in 2016 and her leadership has seen the Guild raising almost £180,000 since 2014.

Her dedication to the RNLI is rooted in a family tragedy. Her late grandfather – who she never got to know – perished in the Robert Lindsay disaster of 1953 when six crew died while returning to Arbroath from a call-out.