DIED WITH MEN
PADRE REFUSED TO SAVE OWN LIFE LONDON, April 1. When the British troopship Anselm was torpedoed and sinking in midAtlantic in 1941 an R.A.F. padre. Herbert Cecil Pugh, refused to board a lifeboat, and went down into the damaged hold, where injured men were trapped. He died with them. For this, says the ‘ London Gazette,’ he has been (posthumously awarded the George Cross. The citation says Padre Pugh insisted that someone lower ‘him into the hold on a rope. When he knelt to pray the water reached his shoulders. He was, never seen again.
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Evening Star, Issue 26067, 3 April 1947, Page 8
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97DIED WITH MEN Evening Star, Issue 26067, 3 April 1947, Page 8
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