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Gold Badge
7 Oct 1980

Gold Badge Awards 1980: Recipients

See our 1980 Gold Badge recipients here. Content originally published by BASCA.

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See our 1980 Gold Badge recipients here. Content originally published by BASCA.

Originally published by BASCA, October 7th 1980

The full list of 1980 Gold Badge recipients is as follows:

  • Charlie Chester
  • Ray Coleman
  • Robert Farnon
  • Stanley Holloway
  • Teddy Holmes
  • Elgar Howarth
  • Sydney Lipton
  • Bill McGuffie
  • Ben Nisbet
  • Gisela O’Connor
  • Geoffrey Parsons
  • Les Reed
  • Sandy Wilson
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