OFFICER’S GALLANTRY
YORKSHIRE FLOOD EPISODE. London, July 26. A millionaire’s dash on horseback to save his chauffeur and family was one of the most thrilling rescue incidents of the Yorkshire floods. Coastguards vainly attempted to rescue with rocket apparatus the chaffeur, Ernest Fletcher, and his wife and child, who were marooned in a house surrounded by a raging torrent. Major. H. R. Bell, Fletcher’s employer, rode into the water, and was almost swept away with his horse. He turned back and after several attempts got through, with his horse almost swimming. Tho child was handed out of the window and carried to safety. Major Bell also saved the mother and father.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 August 1930, Page 7
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