FIRE AT HOSPITAL.
GUARDS SAVE PATIENTS. DRAMATIC SCENES AT WINDSOR. Australian Press Association—United Service LONDON, April 25. A fire broke out in the King Edward VII. Hospital, which the late King Edward opened in 1909, All the available Lifeguards and Footguards at the Windsor garrison were mobilised and carried out tho task of moving every patient with wonderful efficiency. Giant Lifeguards plunged into the smoko and brought out 100 patients, either in their arms or on stretchers. Other troops stripped the wards of beds and other important articles of furniture by the use of which every patient was installed at tho barracks while the fire still burned. Two wings of tho building were gutted and the main building was damaged.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19931, 27 April 1928, Page 12
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