GEORGE MEDAL FOR PRIEST
Quelled Mob In Rhodesia (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright/ LONDON, December 1. A Roman Catholic French missionary who quelled a “threatening mob” in Northern Rhodesia while alone and unarmed has been awarded the George Medal, the Colonial Office announced tonight The medal, a British civilian honour for gallantry, goes to Father Augustine Louis Boumier, aged 52, of the White Fathers’ Mission at Santa Maria on Chilubi Island, Northern Rhodesia. The citation said that last March a rioting mob attacked the District Commissioner and members of his party at Muchinshi. Two European officers were wounded, one critically, and four rioters were killed. Father Boumier succeeded in pacifying the mob “by the sustained exercise of moral and physical courage of the highest order.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29068, 3 December 1959, Page 3
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