BRAVERY REWARDED
BRITISH SOLDIER IN HAIFA LIVE BOMB THROWN OUT OF CAFE (British Official Wireless.) Press Associatioc —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, February 24. The gallant action of Private J. E. Mott, of the Ist Battalion of the Essex Regiment, in picking up a live bomb which had been thrown into a crowded cafe at Haifa on Christmas Day and throwing it into the street, where it exploded, has been rewarded. The War Office announced that the King approved of the award of tho medal of the British Empire, military division, for gallantry. The announcement stated that the Jordania Cafe in Haifa was crowded with soldiers and civilians when a bomb was thrown among them. Private Mott who was seated at .a table with some othersmen of the battalion, picked up the bomb and buried it through a window' into the street, where it exploded with great violence. Mott’s courageous act undoubtedly saved several lives and injuries to many of his - companions.
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Evening Star, Issue 22893, 26 February 1938, Page 15
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160BRAVERY REWARDED Evening Star, Issue 22893, 26 February 1938, Page 15
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