GEORGE MEDAL
STUDENT AT HOSPITAL
FORMER NEW ZEALANDER
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 18.
Mr. P. B. Maling, a son of Mr. James Maling, Cashmere, has been .awarded the George Medal for conspicuous gallantry during an air raid.
Mr. Maling, who was a student in his final year at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, was" one of a snlall band:of volunteers who remained in the hospital after it had received three direct hits last September. Though the building was evacuated, Mr. Maling and his companions performed work of the greatest importance at the risk of their lives.
Mr. Maling is 28 years old. He was educated at Christ's College and Canterbury University College. He was a geologist with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and worked for a time in Iran. Five years ago he decided to become a doctor and entered St. Thomas's as a student.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 92, 19 April 1941, Page 10
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