HEROINE OF THE WAR

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2560, 17 April 1930, Page 5

HEROINE OF THE WAR

MORE SECRET HISTORY MRS. CREAMER OF FALKLAND HOW STTJRDEE GOT TIIE TIP By Telegraph-Press Assn-Copyright tAnst. and N.Z. Cable) (Received April 17, 9.10 a.m.) London. April 10. A little known heroine of the naval history of th e Falkland Islands in 1914 is Mrs. Creamer. She is paying her first visit to London since she married and settled down in the Falklands. Her Ift-year-old daughter is with her. Th c Creamers lived in an outlying island, but a brother resided at Port Stanley. He warned her that the German navy was coming. Mrs. Creamer sent two servants on horseback to Ih e top of the cliffs in order to watch for the German warships. When the Germans at last npjK*ared on the horizon the servants raced back to the house. She then telephoned to Port Stanley, whence the message was wirelessed to Admiral Sturdee. The British Admiralty r' rented Mrs. Creamer with a silver salver as a memento of her patriotic a* ‘ and rewarded her servants with a silver tea pet each. Later Mrs. Creamer was invested with the Order of the British Empire.