1941-03-26 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 26, 1941.

HEROISM BY YOUNG MAN WINS MEDAL FOR HIS BRIDE'S WEDDING PRESENT

A YOUNG MAN who jestingly promised his sweetheart a medal for her wedding present, won one for heroism în an air raid.

The award is embarrassing William Albert Dunn, twenty-eight, of Bebington, Cheshire, so much that he refuses to leave the house.

His fiancee, Miss Freda Wright, is receiving the congratulations of friends for him.

Mr. Dunn is a voluntary dispatch rider for the Cheshire Constabulary. The medal of the Civil Division of the O.B.E. was awarded to him for gal- lantry in rescuing Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brooks, of Port Sunlight, and their daughter, Betty, ten, when trapped in the wreckage of their home.

During a blitz Mr. Dunn was out! "He seemed to possess the on duty when an H. E. demolished strength of ten." several houses.

A pollerman and civilian tried to rescue the family, but were overcome by coal gas from a burst main

Mr. Dunn, slightly built and dark, is foreman to a building contractor.

"The present fuss is a dashed sight worse than any blitz," he

Two hours Mr. Dunn burrowed | said. with his bare hands and the butt "Anyway we hope to get marri- end of his torch tu reach the ed about Easter, so I shall have family.

a present for my bride after all."

Mrs. Brooks was buried under an upturned table and a six-foot

square slab of concrete.

With the help of a civilian, Mr. Dunn levered the concrete up and sawed through the table.

He saved Betty, first by cutting off her hair, which was pinned under a large clock, and then by crawling with her through the

tunnels. She was suffering from

shock.

Mrs. Brooks, whose

broken, told a reporter

leg was

"I shall never be able to thank

Mr. Dunn enough for saving our lives,"

"Dunn is a hero", one of his friends said.

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(BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

Practical is the word for Bonita Granville's topcoat in vibrant

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Among those who attended at the Windsor Labour Exchange for registration with the 1904 Should wives of soldiers class was the Chief Constable of live near the camps or

Windsor, Mr. Ralph Wellings --✦ one of the youngest Chief Cun- barracks where their stables in the country,

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PACIFIC

Nowadays women are fol- lowing their menfolk to their military centres in Although Canada is increasing numbers, and sending all available help Army opinion is divided eastwards across the Af- on the wisdom of allowing lantic the Mother the practice. Country she is by no means neglecting the sec-way that it is not in the best in- Regular Aimy officers usually urity of her Western sea-terests of a regiment to have of-

to

board. The 600 miles of domestic affairs

ficers and men distracted by

while on active

British Columbia's coast- service. line are under the close One retired Territorial officer watch of the R.C.A.F., summarises the position as fol- Western Air Command. lows:--

Including the inlets, "The movement of wives to fiords and the thousand areas in which their husbands are quartered is a difficult proposition islands which fringe the and on the whole not to be en- coast there are more than couraged, especially when such areas are considered to be dan—

6,000 miles of shoreline to gerous, be patrolled.

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and consequently have

been evacuated by the ordinary inhabitants.

Giant flying boats and sea- planes fly hundreds of miles out "Movements of troops, however, over the Pacific on patrol duty cause changes in residence to be or guarding convoys. The pilots frequent. I am afraid that officers who are selected for this work are the principal offenders, if one have to undergo special training, may call it such, and the other for they require knowledge of ranks cannot be blamed for fol- several branches of nautical towing their example." selence. They are sent to the

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boat on the surface against tides. The commanding officer of the currents or a heavy sea; the rule 2nd Battalion of the London Scot- of the road at sea; navigation and tish states in the Regimental signal codes, including the Navy Gazette:

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