AWARD OF GEORGE CROSSES
LONDON, January 13. Two awards of the George Cross are announced. The first was won by Mr A. E. Dolphin, a porter at a London hospital. When four nurses were killed ’by a bomb at the hospital he found a fifth pinioned by masonry. The wail was heard to crack and other workers juunped clear but he threw himself across the nurse’s body. The wall collapsed and when they extricated the nurse, although she was severely injured,’ she was alive. Mr Dolphin was deaci Mr L. J. Miles who, when an explosion was imminent, ran in its direction in order to warn the residents, won the second award. He was fatally injured. The George Medal is awarded to the chief engineer Mr S. R. Campbell Little of a London hospital. Although blown down by a bomb, with a rib fractured and an ankle damaged, Mr Campbell Little rushed to the boiler house and shut off the fires, the water cociks and the gas mains.
Several women are among the recipients of the George Medal.
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Southland Times, Issue 24338, 20 January 1941, Page 4
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