VETERAN SWIMMER'S DEATH
(Received December 14, noon.)
LONDON, December 13,
The death has occurred at the age of 70 of Charles Oury, of Norwich, who was the first person ever to receive a life-saving award of the Royal Lifesaving Society. He once swam 296 feet under water collecting 44 plates.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 144, 14 December 1940, Page 13
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