RAILWAYMEN AND DOCK WORKERS
MANY INSTANCES OF COURAGE AIR RAIDS JDN BRITAIN [United Press Association] (Received 25th October, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, 24th October. As an instance of the courage of railwaymer. it was stated that when a waggon of high-explosives was set on fire shunters and others promptly removed the top-most layer which had become hot. A checker and his gang removed waggons of ammunition and petrol from a blazing building when hundreds o r incendiary bombs fell on sidings. Railway workers elsewhere evacuated 50 horses after the horseboxes v/ere set on fire. A driver and fireman sheltering under an engine during a raid climbed back into the engine, flooded the boiler and extinguished the fire, preventing a boiler explosion. Similar stories are told of the bravery of dock workers in extinguishing incendiary bombs which had fallen near time-bombs. A ship’s office threw overboard a bomb which fell on the deck. The bomb exploded upon hitting the water.
Station clerks rescued books and records and put out fires when a station was bombed.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 25 October 1940, Page 6
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