BRAVERY REWARDED
LONDON, March. 2
The King Edward medal of the first class has been awarded to M'Whirter M'Lelland. While two steeplejacks were fixing a lightning conductor on a chimney over some new mains in Lanarkshire, one of them was overcome by the gas fumes and fainted on a, 9in scaffold. His colleague tied him to the plank, and then became unconscious. M'Whirter M'Lelland, who had never climbed a chimney before, ascended 180 ft and rescued tha steeplejacks, despite the risk of death from the fumes and the chance of falling.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2921, 9 March 1910, Page 23
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