RISKED OWN LIFE
GALLANT CIVIL ENGINEER, LONDON, March 9. » The British Empire medal for gallantry has been awarded to Mr Harold Charrington, who was a passenger in an aeroplane out of control and risked his life to assist a fellow passenger to jump to safety. 1 Mr Charrington is a civil engineer attached to the Air Ministry. With a colleague he was flying in Palestine in had weather conditions when the pilot, finding that the machine, at a height of about 7500 ft,, was going into an uncontrollable spin, gave the order to jump. Mr Charrington’s colleague was not able to get away as the air pressure , prevented him from climbing over the side of the cockpit. Regardless of his own . safety ,;,/M r Charrington, stayed and helped ’lipn, get clear. When, latpiy Mr ton, with great difficulty. himseltf jumped, the machine); WJas so close to); the ground that a feiv seconds morqi delay would have been fatal. HeC actually reached the ground . almost immediately after his parachute opened. ; , a. ,T -• ■
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1940, Page 3
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