18-YEAR-OLD HERO.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 216, 11 September 1940, Page 8

18-YEAR-OLD HERO.

FIRST 0.8. E. MEPAX. TO WARDER. LONDON", Aug. JO. Donald Louis Jones, aged IS. tbe joungest air-raid warden in his town. '? ™ e * ret war< l e 'J in Britain to win the 0.8. E. Medal. T.iis is Donalds '"meritorioik* service:" He was on duty in a Kentish tow): (luring a recent air raid. A bomb hi a hou.-e. Donald knew several peopl had been trapped and tried to rescn? tliem. • ra "'' n - through the wreckage, risk ing his life every inch he moved, i' round two people pinned bv heavy joistthat had fallen with the 'floor above. Ion? of heavy material seemed like!' o tall oil them at anv moment. s< Donald protected their heads and face wth his body. Then he started directing a rescue 1 P B ,-" Their operations repeat edlr di? 'lodged more debris, but Donald's'bodv sheltered the victim*. '. He stayed there for four hours directing the rescuers, cheering the victim* and, says the official report. '"It traniamly because of his couraee and endurance that they were eventually released." Donald, an apprentice fitter, was op night work when he heard a!>out his medal. lie had not told his mother mud about the rescue. .She said: "'Apparently he was so smothered in 4&t ant dirt when they got him out tS they had to put him under a hot shower an<" scrub him before thev could leil who hf was,"