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William George Fleming〔"Norfolk Maritime Heroes & Legends", Nicholls, M., Pub: Poppyland Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-0-946148-85-1〕 GC (1865–1954) was a famous lifeboatman from Gorleston on the east coast of Norfolk, England. He would win the gold medal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, the silver medal, the bronze medal three times, and the George Cross.〔 ==Early life== William ''Billy'' Flemming was born in Gorleston on Sea in 1865.〔 As a young man he worked as an ordinary seaman, working on small sailing vessels on the east coast of England. He is recorded on the 1881 census as a seaman working on the ''Charlotte Cole''. He lived for most of his life in Pavilion Road,〔County A to Z Atlas, Street & Road maps Norfolk, page 147 ISBN 978-1-84348-614-5〕 Gorleston, just a small distance from the Lifeboat station. He joined the crew of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat in the mid-1880s.〔
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