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MERCHANT SERVICE HEROES KING HONOURS BRAVE MEN LONDON, Dec. 1. After a British ship had been torpedoed, the master spent 12 days adrift in a boat. On being saved he was again torpedoed on his way h,ome. This time he was nearly four days adrift. The man who lives to tell the tale is Captain Edward Gough, of Birkdale, Lancashire. When his own ship began to sink three of four boats were got away. Captain Gough rescued men from another sunken ship, picking them up from a raft. His first thought when saved was for the other boats, which, owing to rough weather, had parted company. Soon after his second rescue he took charge of salvage operations on a sunken ship. His reward, announced in the London Gazette, is the 0.8. E. One of the boats that Captain Gough was worried about was in charge of his first mate, Harry C. Carter. He is now on his honeymoon. He brought more than 20 survivors of his ship to safety. They had spent 16 days in the boat. Mr Carter, whose parents live in Torquay, gels the M.B.E.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24817, 17 January 1942, Page 8
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189HIGH COURAGE Otago Daily Times, Issue 24817, 17 January 1942, Page 8
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