A WAR HERO
GAVE RESPIRATOR AWAY IN GAS ATTACK MEETS DEATH IN SAVING CHILD(Australian Presq Association.) LontlMi, November 19. On the eve of the [funeral, with military honours, of a man named Lovell, ex-service man, killed in saving a three-year-old child from being run over at the Armistice celebrations at Limehouse, another ex-service man sought permission 1 o see the body. Following a scrutiny, he said: “I thought so. We were together in France and he savell my life. I was wounded during a gas attack and Lovell took off his respirator and gave it to me, saying, ‘lfqu take it, mate, I can run.’ I had mat seen him since.” The Mayor of JEMiplar is raising a fund for Lovell’s widow and seven children. Ten thousand followed the cortege in the crow tied streets.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 49, 21 November 1928, Page 11
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