DOCTOR'S HEROISM
BRAVE DEED IN MINE Eve:-y day in the mines of Britain acts of heroism are performed. This is the sfory of one of the bravest deeds ever recorded. The hero is a doctor. A stone weighing 100 tons fell on the hand of a youth working in North Walbottle Colliery, near Nowcastle-on-Tyne. All efforts by his comrades to release him failed. Dr. Hugh Kendal, of Westerliope, Newcastle, was told of the accident. He descended the pit and decided to amputate the youth's fingers. The 100 tons block of stone threatened no tumble over and crush the doctor af; any moment, but he began the operation. Then his surgical instruments broke., so he took a hacksaw, and with that he coolly completed the operation.
Thin heroic story was told to the Carnegie Hero Fund Trustees when they met at Dunfermline recently. They decided to ask Dr. Kendal to choose an award by.the fund to. the yalue of £2O, i: . . ... • ''.V
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21698, 13 January 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)
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