HONOURS IN BEAUVAIS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 9

HONOURS IN BEAUVAIS

HELPERS OF VICTIMS

BRITISH APPRECIATION

(Brltlin Official Wlrtlens.) (Received 4th December, Noon.) EUGBY, 3rd December. The British Ambassador, Lord Tyrrell, visited Beauvais to-day to present the decorations and gifts awarded to those who in various ways assisted on the occasion of the disaster of the 8101. The decorations granted by the King, and the Insignia of which wero presented to-day, included Knighthoods of the Order of the British Empire to Monsieur Couch, Secretary-General of the French Air Ministry, and to Monsieur Lebeau, Prefect of Oisc. The Mayors of Allonne and Beauvais, tho commandant of tho Sub-Division of Beauvais, and tho commandant of tho gendarmes of Oise, are appointed Commanders of the British Empire Order. Membership of the same Order was granted to five persons and the Meritorious Servicp Medal of the British Empire to 157 , persons. The Mayor of Allonne also received a gold watch and chain with the Eoyal Arms inscribed on it. Two doctors who att'epded the survivors received silver inkstands inscribed with the Eoyal Arms. Others also received a eilver cigarette case, a silver bond on trays, and brooches, while the nuns received rosary boxes all inscribed as above. The town of Beauvais was presented with a large silver rose bowl. A cheque for £150 was presented to Beauvais Hospital, while the Mother Superior of tho nuns at the hospital was given a cheque for £.25. In a letter from Lord Tyrrell to the French Foreign Minister, he conveys j the deep appreciation of the British Government of all that was so spontaneously done in France to assist1 the victims of tho disaster and to salve tho wreckage.