SERVICE REWARDED
KING HOLDS INVESTITURE. HEROISM IN THE ATLANITC. British Wireless. Rugby, July 19. The Ring held an investiture at Buckingham Palace to-day, Sir Seymour Hicks and Sir Arthur Pugh received knighthoods, and decorations for gallantry were bestowed upon members of the crew, of? the' Ascania, which went to the assistance of the Usworth when the latter foundered in the Atlantic gale last December. The King handed to Mrs. Gibson the Albert Medal, awarded tq her son, a cook on the Usworth, for bravery. The King expressed sympathv with the mother and commended tho son’s heroism.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1935, Page 5
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