MEDAL FOR BRAVERY
JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 9. The King’s Medal for bravery was presented by the Governor-General, Sir Patrick Duncan, at Government House recently to Mr. William Tweedale Dulling, who, while a mine overseer at Rose Deep, rescued an injured native under dangerous and arduous conditions after a pressure burst. Mr. Dalling carried out the rescue with the help only of his boss boy, David Simango.
In presenting the medal the Gover-nor-General said it was the .first occasion on which the King’s Medal for bravery had been awarded in South Africa.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20184, 29 February 1940, Page 3
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