GEORGE MEDAL
AWARD Iff N.Z. MEDICAL STUDENT GALLANTRY IN AIR RAID [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, April 18. Air P. B. Haling, a son of Mr James Haling, of Cashmere, has been awarded the George Medal for conspicuous gallantry during an air raid. Air Alaling, who was a student in his final year at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, was one of a small band of volunteers who remained at the hospital after it had received three direct hits last September. Though the building was evacuated, Air Haling and his companions performed work of the greatest importance at the risk of their lives. Air Alaling is aged 2.8 years. He was educated at Christ’s College and at Canterbury College. He was a geologist with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and worked for a time in Iran. Five years ago ho decided to become a doctor, and entered St. Thomas’s as a
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Evening Star, Issue 23864, 19 April 1941, Page 6
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149GEORGE MEDAL Evening Star, Issue 23864, 19 April 1941, Page 6
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