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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 3, 1941.
HUNT FOR
TWO WOMEN WIN MAN WITH
THE G.M. FOR RAID WORK
TWO WOMEN have been awarded the George Medal for gallantry in air raids, it was announced.
They are:-
Miss Betty Quinn, of St. John Ambulance Brigade, Coventry; and Miss Rose Ede, of Wadhurst, a Sussex village near Tunbridge Wells.
Miss Ede and her parents were first an the scene when a farm re- ceived a direct hit. Two people were killed and three children
irapped.
The Ede family heard the cries of the children and rescued two of 1hem. A baby remained trapped.
Miss Edc crawled under fallen beams, which might have crush- ed her at any moment, and worked for more than half an hour moving the child inch by inch and comforting it until beam was lifted.
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She was in complete darkness and pouring ran all the time. Enemy 'planes werg overhead.
They Saved Corn
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fireman (both George Medal) worked on a fire within a few feet of an unexploded bomb and during a second bombing and machine-gun attack.
His Vain Search
George Smith. len, thaman, roads and bridges department, Cheshire County Council (0) B.E ). rescued two children from a hote set on fire by an oil boob and | returned for a third chibi who, it | was found later, was not miside
The George Medal al goes to Station Sergeant E. Goodyear | Royal Marine Police, and H I )
Robbons, deputy armament supply officer.
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A A. shrapnel Jaling raund Miss Quinn helped an injured to a public shelter.
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IRON BAR
Police in plain clothes are keeping watch for a man believed to be Irish, and armed with an iron bar, who has been waylay- ing and attacking people in lonely roads at Hove, Sussex.
Two of his victims have been taken to hospital.
One Saturday night he savagely attacked a young woman. She was walking home in Nevill Avenue when he stopped her and asked the way.
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As she stooped and flashed her torch on a gateway he beat her over the head with an iron bar. She rcreamed for help and her acsailant escaped in the black -
About the same time
the pre- vious night a man was similarly attacked as he walked along a footpath across allotments. He was und unconscious and is detained Hove Hospital with head
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FURS, JEWELS TO HER MAID
Gertrude Mary Beatrice Hirottle, of Ratton Road. East- bonum. Sussex, who died leaving CGBG 16%, left £100, her furs, clothes, jewels, and furniture to kid.
man įtarted wate parat tires Robin the value of £50 to her
clave m¦ Mary Lamb, and the residue
sure to her for life.
Then an Anderson spelter re-Are Babtist ceved direct bit, and, with XOXOXO rombs still falling. Miss Quinu seized a spade and helped to dig out seven people. Afterwards she attended to their injuries.
Jack Reynolds, aged eighteen, A.R.P. messenger. of Birming ham, who crawled Into a celtar by a small hole and rescued six people, receives the Medal of the Civil Division of the O.B.E.
George Medal is awarded to Reginald Herbert Blunt and William Harris, who threshed corm for nine weeks while un. der direct fire from the French coast, machine gun fire from air, and while A.A. shrapne! was falling round them.
Their work enabled many hun- dreds of quarters of corn to be available for the ration which would otherwise have been lost.
The George Crums goes to Spe- mal Constable Brandon Moss, of Coventry Special Constabulary, who led a party to rescue three People trapped IN a demolished house. He agam led the rescue of other people
Аб а result of "superhuman efforts, and utter disregard for personal Injury." one person was rescued alive.
Moss worked from 11 p.m. to 6.30 am. without paust.
Thomas James Vickers, worka fitter, of the South Metropolitan Gas Company (George Medal) climbed a gas holder to a height of-60ft, during a raid and scal- ed holes from which escaping gas was ignited.
Henry Bernard Neale, A.F.S. man, is awarded the George Medal for helping to save two tanks full of oll. Burning oil was pouring. from one tank and Neale, with help, plugged the hole with wood. Frederick Parkes, A.R.P. warden (George Medal), turned off the gas at the main In works hit by a high explosive bomb. His action saved the works from destruction.
Albert 'Elward Parsons Twy- man, chief officer, fire belgado, and Frederick Walter - Watson,
MYSTERY DEATH OF
WOMAN DOCTOR
„Adjourning"the inquest at Ham merɛinith on Dr. Dorothy Evelyn Wright, 37, of The Gottage, Dover «Ilouse #Road, Roehampton, Mr. Neville Stafford, the coroner, sald; "The lady has died in circum stances that look like poisoning?” Be Formal evidence of identification was given by Dir Ellen Mary *Barnow who said that Dr. Wright *had been try practice with-her-at] ||Roehampton for 30 years.
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