For what the Royal Humane Society consider the bravest deed of the year to come under their notice, a British engineer, Mr Benjamin R. Spencer, aged 38, of Klipspruit Sewage Farm, Johannesburg, has been granted the Stanhope gold medal of the society. A native worker, it was stated, went down a manhole at the farm to remove a blockage, and was overcome by sewer gas. Two other natives followed, and they also were overcome. Mr Spencer then went down with a rope round his waist and his face covered with a cloth soaked in chemical. He fastened a second rope to the men and they were drawn up one by one. He himself was drawn up unconscious.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20828, 11 April 1933, Page 12
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