BRAVE DEED
BRITISH NAVAL OFFICER. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, February 13. The Stanhope gold medal, awarded by the Royal Humane Society for the bravest deed of the year, was presented to a naval officer, Lieutenant Hugh Richardson. In darkness on a January morning in heavy weather, Richardson dived fully clothed from H.M.S. Wolfhound in an attempt to rescue a man. Having tried unsuccessfully to tow the man to a buoy, he fetched the buoy to the man and, having helped to get him into the boat which was launched, he was himself rescued only with great difficulty some time later.
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Southland Times, Issue 22507, 15 February 1935, Page 7
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100BRAVE DEED Southland Times, Issue 22507, 15 February 1935, Page 7
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