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HIGHEST CARNEGIE AWARD
LONDON, May 2.
The highest Carnegie award, a bronze medal, has been made in the case of a managing director who died from burns after rescuing 20 girls from a fire in the building where all were employed. He was Mr. Ernest Reid Powell, 42, of Cranmore-avenue, Belfast. He had helped a number of employees to safety bn Aug. 2, 1935, when he saw girls at upper windows unable to escape. Powell groped his way upstairs through dense smoke, and shepherded the girls one by one through the windows to firemen. He was so severely burned that he died two days later. He was posthumously awarded the Edward Medal of the first class by the late King.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 June 1936, Page 2
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