Heroic Boy Scouts Forget Fire
(Rec. 1 p.m.) LONDON, May 27. A squad of boy scouts were the heroes of a recent heavy German attack on a definite objective in the south-west of England. Equipping themselves with a trailerpump belonging to the Auxiliary Fire Seryice, which they dragged into action behind their scoutmaster’s car, a fire fighting squad from the second Saltash scout troop volunteered to deal with the fire, although warned that they would be subjected to constant bombing. The party had not been working long before one lad of 17 years was pierced right through the body by shrapnel. The leader of the party, aged 18, had just refused relief from a most dangerous positon when he was killed by a bomb. His younger brother, injured in the arm and leg, made no mention of his injuries, but volunteered to fetch a stretcher party. He had dragged himself along the ground for Half a mile when an ambulance picked him up.
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Northern Advocate, 28 May 1941, Page 7
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