BRAVEST DEED OF THE YEAR.
CDSIMAN-TJER, WHO RISKED HIS LIFE FDR -A SEASLVN, Gomaiaiwler Wilfrid fonifcinsoi), 8,N., was recently , awarded the Sbn-hope , Hold Medal by the i&oyai Humane Society for having perforated "the bravc-st di?cd of flic year." ! , On ike morning of Novertiiior 3d last a seaniail was washed overboard .front S-flbma-fine 84, off BiglwT.V Bay, Dcs-eiij Into a very ftrtrgh oca, "In response to a signal front the , submarine tfo destrojw Wotf raced to the spot* ■ aiid Caflipiaiwbr ToinkinsoH, who was , on Tina-rd, plunged in and sfldfot'.ElvStl jii T : ))-m.gijjg the seaftipii iicAr to tltat vestol. A lifebuoy 'was thrown, and he sriainl it, tint it brake* and' both men ■fffl back' into the seething water, 'On coming to the sorfa-qt l , the eoniiMivder gfaspsd A few which, was . thrown : tnit rrfuscd to bit' taken mi board until all hope nf sstvi-ng the mart, tvlio had. been su'dked under tile' ship, was gone, HV JiijMSolf narrowly , csi caped a simitar fate,
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2016, 25 March 1914, Page 2
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162BRAVEST DEED OF THE YEAR. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2016, 25 March 1914, Page 2
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