A BRAVE DEED.
♦ THE STANHOPE MEDAL.' -At-the annual meeting on .'March' '16 of- t.lns Royal Humane. Society- ; tho : 'Stanhope'; gold meclal for'tho best ; rescuo 'of tho> year was : .'awarded.'to- William H. Parr for-.thoVfollow-in;i gallant action-v-.--\ v . < '■ ■ On' September 13 .1 boat with James A-13-, and some thirty natives 011 board was swamped in trying to reach the s.s. Illovo, of -the -Aberdeen Direct Line,- then at anchor . 111 tluv Inhambane R|\er. East Africa. ■>... . ■ • V: Instantly! • thy ;• frantic'■ .natives-;'..clutched:-:-.'■ ■■ Moore, draggiiig' liim uiider 'tliejwatnr. ; PaiT, observing;this from4)ie. ship,: and,knowing:. ;tlieextreme-danger, fvoiji Uio-miihero.us',sliark!j.. which infest the river, . sprang. • overboard. -y:'. After, liberating Moore'.from the struggling natives).- Pan; swain awav -with , him, bui; - .owing-'to-the stroiig tido-it.wivs impossible.to reach -the ship. A boat was■-lowered ami ' the men wore picked up, alter being- twenty ■; minutes in tluj water-and dufting half, q mile. - ...-. v ■ ■ '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 187, 2 May 1908, Page 10
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138A BRAVE DEED. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 187, 2 May 1908, Page 10
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