THE HELMSMAN'S SMILE
ROWKLS TKLLS HIS STORV.
LONDON. .May 1. Special p.",rticulu;v> gatlieredi m>m Helmsman Jlywels in connection with the L'lianhei fii/lit show th.;t fragments of a, she.il which hurst behind the wheel struck him all over the lower purl of the 'body. "When undressed after action 1 resembled." lit- said, "n carroty pudding. When the skipper ordered me to swing the ship round and ram the destroyer ii put new life into me. The telegraph man. who was aho wounded, Im'ped me M i;'U the wheel itdo position. Thus we crushed the German destroyer. 1 then saw the destroyer lying on its port side and crushed riyht down only the forepart being visible. Then 1 slniled for the first time during the action, and L haven't .stopped since." The Admiralty account of the "tigasrement mule this reference lo Rowels: "The spirit of the wounded was epitomised in the conduct of the Bfoke's he'muman. Rowels, why though hit font' limes with shell fragments, remained at 'me wheel t'lroushout the action, and o, 'y betrayed tlnl he Wits wounded by reporting to the i-nptnhi; "I am coiinr iff i w, sir!" and limn f;iint : ng.'
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 May 1917, Page 3
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