BOY SCOUT HERO

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 16 October 1920, Page 10

BOY SCOUT HERO

Two 'hors lost their lives in a distressing bathing fatality at Weliord-on-A\on tEngland;. A camp or aooui ?• dozen lads—nil, with the exception ol one, pupils of Woodronghs school. Moseley—had been held tw urn minks l of the Avon, nuclei' the Charge di Ail iU. \ . Ji.ougui>. Tlulip .Mason, ot liirchgrove, King’s I.*oath, and another boy named Boucuer, ol M. Agues load, Aloselev, were bathings who had had only a few lessons in swum min"-, got into difficulties in deep wa--1 ter and bemm to sink. Edward Uei meins (11),’ sou of the duel instructor !in gymmis, ies to the Birmingham i continuation classes, despite the hum 1 that, he could not swim, pimped into i (nt ot water and held out his hand to I Xolsun. A Scout named Victor Grange, I (Kit, of Wolverhampton, .seeing tno i hov's predicament, jumped m, iully i doihed. Then .Mr Hoggins, who had i hern asleep in the lent, rushed up, and I he, too, jumped in. As he could not 1 swim, he was soon in difficulties. >»- 1 fort Vina tel v, Nelson lost hold ol C leI ments’s hand ami sank. Grange was also carried under by the weight ol his clothes and his inability to swim, and was drowned. -Clements, who oehaved with remarkable pluck-and presence ot mind, pushed a punt to Ait Hoggins, who was aide to seize* ii. and was resened.