Steward Saved Comrade With Tablecloth
LONDON. When & British ship was sinking after an explosion, an assistant steward, James Thomas, trapped with a messmate who had a broken leg and. foot, saved his comrade with a tablecloth. The ladder to the saloon had been blown away. Though himself injured, Thomas wrapped a tablecloth round the injured man, pulled him out aud lowered him into the water, from which he was rescued. Thomas, whose home is in Barnthwaite Road, Fulham, London, has been awarded the medal of the Civil Division, 0.8. E. A U-boat launched a torpedo at another ship, which was hit. A second struck the first and sent it skimming on to the deck. A third crashed into the ship’s side. The master, ordering full speed, kept his ship afloat. The chief engineer, though his shop was full of water, kept the engines racing. This ship, with a vitally important cargo, reached port—with the German, torpedo which had been knocked on to the deck. Tho master, Captain Nelson Ric® (Upminster, Essex), and tho chief engineer, Air. Albert George Johnson I (Bebington, Cheshire), became Additional Officers of the Civil Division, 0.8. E. These are stories of gallantry at sea made known by the publication in the Loudon Gazette of a list of awards.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 121, 23 May 1941, Page 2
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