SOLDIER DISCARDS CRUTCHES TO SAVE DROWNING CHILD. A plucky rescue from drowning was recently effected at Folkestone, England, when a wounded soldier, who has had one leg amputated, threw away his crutches and jumped into a pond in Radnow Park to save the life of a drowning three-year-old boy. The soldier, Pvte. Jesse White, an inmate of Victoria Hospital, is shown with Master Freddy Clayson, the boy, and the latter’s mother.
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1374, 24 August 1916, Page 7
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71SOLDIER DISCARDS CRUTCHES TO SAVE DROWNING CHILD. A plucky rescue from drowning was recently effected at Folkestone, England, when a wounded soldier, who has had one leg amputated, threw away his crutches and jumped into a pond in Radnow Park to save the life of a drowning three-year-old boy. The soldier, Pvte. Jesse White, an inmate of Victoria Hospital, is shown with Master Freddy Clayson, the boy, and the latter’s mother. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1374, 24 August 1916, Page 7
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