CIVILIAN VALOUR
TWO GEORGE CROSSES
HEROES OF THE AIR RAIDS
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received January 18, 12.30 p.mO
RUGBY, January 17.
Two awards of the George Cross are announced. The first, was won by A. E. Dolphin, a porter at the Southeastern Hospital, New Cross, London. When four nurses were killed by a bomb at the hospital, Mr. Dolphin found a fifth pinioned by masonry. The wall was heard to crack, and the other workers jumped clear, but Mr. Dolphin threw himself across the nurse's body. The wall collapsed, and when they extricated the nurse she was severely injured, but alive. Mr. Dolphin was dead.
The second award. is to Mr. L. J. Miles, who, when an explosion was imminent, ran in its direction to warn residents. He was • fatally injured. The George Medal is awarded to Mr. S. R. Campbell-Little, chief engineer of a London hospital. Although blown down by a bomb, with a rib fractured and an ankle damaged, he rushed to the boiler-house and shut off the fires, the water-cocks, and the gas mains._
Several women are among the recipients of George Medals.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1941, Page 10
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