SIX CHILD HEROES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

SIX CHILD HEROES

LIFE-SAVERS UNDER 14

RESCUES FROM DROWNING

GIRL'S GALLANT FEAT

Tho names of six children one girl and . five, boys—all under the age of 14,. appear in tho latest list of awards granted;by tho Royal Humane Society for risking their lives to save others from drowning. Tho chief accounts of their deeds issued by the society provide clear testimony to tho heroism and gallantry of British youth. The details are as follows: —t> ' Marjorie Ulyatt, aged 11, Fishtoft, near Biston: When Joan Horton, aged 12, and another child got out of their depth while bathing she ran along the bank for help, but seeing nobody, ran back, pulled oft her clothes, jumped in and swam to the aid of the drowning girls. She got Joan Hocton to the bank, and then went back for the other girl, who had, however, by that time disappeared. She was awarded a bronze medal.

Charles Pratt, aged 13, of Chelsea: His brother James, aged nine, was swept off the steps, at Chelsea Embankment into the Thames by the wash of a passing tug. Charles, who could swim a little, dived in and nearly got him to tho steps, when the boy was washed from his grasp. Charles made another attempt, but the boy disapjieared and Charles himself was rescued by William Smith, aged 28, and Louis Weisenrieder, aged 27, to each of whom a parchment was awarded. Charles was awarded a certificate on vellum.

Thomas Parfitt, aged 12, of Vauxhall: He rescued John H. Brown, aged 11, who fell into the Thames wkiile playing on the Embankment. He was awarded a parchment certificate.

Terence Bernard McNulty, aged 12, of Woohyich: He dived fully clothed into the Thames at Bell Gate Steps, Woolwich, and brought Peggy .Ramsey, aged six, to shore. He received a parchment and an award of £l.

Douglas Holroyd, aged 12, of Hounslow: He saved Jeffrey Feilder, aged five, who got into deep water while paddling in a gravel pit, on the SouthWest Road, and would have been drowned but for Holroyd's prompt action.

Thomas J. Swain, aged 13, of East Sheen: H,e rescued Gerald Smith, aged five, from the Thames.

A silver medal was awarded to John Adams, of Kakmega, Kenya Colony, for an act of great courage in rescuing B. P. Fayle from a crocodile. On March 17 Adams and Fayle were bathing in the Jsioha River when the latter was seized by the right arm by a crocodile. Without hesitation Adams caught the reptile by the head, and by pulling and shaking succeeded in making it release its grip. He then pulled Fayle—whose arm was broken in two places— to his feet and helped him out of the water.