BOY SCOUTS HEROES IN AIR RAID
(Recd. 5.5 p.m.) London, May 27. Boy Scouts were heroes of a recent heavy German aerial attack on an objective in south-west England. Equipping themselves with A.F.S. trailer and pump, which they dragged into action behind their Scoutmaster's car, a fire-fighting squad from the Second Saltash Scout Troop volunteered to deal with a fire, although warned it would be subjected to constant bombing.
The party had not been working long before a 17-year-nld lad was pierced right through the body by shrapnel. The leader of the party, aged 18, refused relief from the most dangerous position. When he was killed by a bomb his younger brother, injured in an arm and a leg, made no mention of his injuries, but volunteered to fetch a stretcher party and dragged himself along the ground for half a mile when an ambulance picked him up.—U.P.A.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 124, 29 May 1941, Page 5
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