Lynsted Parish Council Marks Honour to Former Colleague.

Tom English, Chairman of Lynsted with Kingsdown Parish Council, presented senior Lynsted resident David Bage with a cut-glass decanter to mark the occasion of Mr Bage’s award of the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

The presentation took place prior to the meeting of the parish council on 10th August, before an invited group of friends.  Tom explained that the Council was particularly pleased that David had received the honour, since he had served as Member, Clerk and Chairman of the Parish Council.

‘ The award of the MBE was for services to Lynsted’ said Cllr English. ‘It was richly deserved. David has been involved with the parish for 50 years and had served, among other things, as churchwarden, school governor, editor of the parish news magazine and chairman of the annual fete committee.  Everyone in the parish was pleased at the honour’.

David responded by saying that he had suspected a conspiracy when he saw the abnormally high number of the public attending a routine parish council meeting! But he was pleased to accept the surprise award of the specially inscribed decanter.  The inscription read:  Presented by Lynsted with Kingsdown Parish Council to David Andrew Bage, MBE. For services to the Community, June 2004.