ADMIRAL’S GALLANTRY
DROWNING CHILD SAVED. j —* I Rear-Admiral 11. I‘. \ ming, ot , Southsen recently at. the age of 68 gallantly* rescued a drowning child. He was walking along the front near. Southsea Cattle when he was told that two child-en had fallen into the water and? that one. a girl c was. drowning. Seeing the child flmting face dowuwailds in the water, Adm*ral Vining at once threw off his coat, jumped in. and swam oit to her. An onlooker threw a life-buoy;, which the Admiral grasped, and by this means he and. the child he was supporting wert i
pulled to the shore. X Difficulty was experienced in get-l ting the’ two up the sloping face of the Jba wall and the admiral was so ex haustcl by Vis efforts that he had to take to his 11. Tho girl was brought jround. ’
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Grey River Argus, 6 September 1930, Page 11
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