GUARDS' HEROISM.
PATIENTS RESCUED FROM BURNING HOSPITAL. Received This Day, !).20 a.m. {Australian Press Assn, and Sun.) LONDON, April 24. All available Life Guards and FootGuards in the Windsor Garrison were mobilised when the King Edward Hospital, which King Edward opened in 1909, caught fire. The troops tackled the task of moving every patient with wonderful efficiency. , Giant Life Guards plunged iuto the smoke and brought out iu all a hundred patients, either in their arms or on stretchers. Other troops stripped the wards of beds and other important furniture, enabling every patient to be installed at the Barracks; while the lire still burned. Two wings were gutted, and the main building was damaged.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 April 1928, Page 5
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114GUARDS' HEROISM. Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 April 1928, Page 5
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