GALLANT POLICE OFFICERS
KING’S MEDAL AWARDED
Delhi, January 3.
Many thrilling tales of devotion to duty are narrated in the Government “Gazette,” chronicling the award of the King’s Police Medal to three police officers in different parts of India. One railway constable, armed only with a lath, kept an infuriated mob of three thousand at bay, and undoubtedly saved a locomotive fireman from a ghastly end. Again Superintendent Taylor, engaged to round up two desperate outlaws in a lonely hamlet near Peshawar, after his superior officer, Handyside, had been mortally wounded, climbed up the roof of a dilapidated house, and bombed out the second outlaw.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 86, 6 January 1930, Page 8
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