GALLANT SOLDIERS
RESCUE ATTEMPTS IN SEA
(British Official Wireless.) (Received October 5, 1.45 p.m.)
RUGBY, October 4. The bravery of soldiers who swam to the rescue—in one instance unsuccessfully—of airmen down in the sea and recommended to the notice of the Commander-in-Chief of the Home Forces as worthy of mention for gallant and distinguished service is described in a War Office announcement. Lance-Sergeant W. Johnson and Corporal G. Goodwin, of the King's Regiment (Liverpool), swam out to attempt to rescue survivors of an aeroplane which was upside down on the water and surrounded by blazing petrol. They reached the plane before any boats arrived and made every effort in the oily water to rescue its occupants. In this duty they were" unsuccessful. Four privates of the Border Regiment—R. M. Collins, J. T. Hodgson, J. Mitchell, and H. W. Eldren—swam out in the darkness, and found and rescued a Royal Air Force sergeant who had come down by parachute and was in difficulties.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 84, 5 October 1940, Page 12
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