CRIPPLE'S BRAVERY.
AWARD FROM HERO FUND
(Eecelved 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, December 27. A case of remarkable courage despite a physical incapacity has been recognised by the trustees of tho Carnegie Hero Fund in an award to Alfred Breunan, of Thurso, a one-legged man who, last September, rescued a woman bather to whom a lifebelt had been thrown, but who was drifting out to sea.
Brennan went through the surf on crutches, which he then discarded', and swam out and towed the helpless bather back to shore.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 307, 28 December 1935, Page 10
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