COURAGEOUS NURSE STOPS MELEE
A Wclsli luirsiug sister, Miss f/tlian I'Ji/.abctli Tlunlun — whose uik-Jk, Mr. S. Vickery, v\dh IIid V.C. in 1S97 — i)i'oke i i j » a t'urious luiit'i: batllc ameug Sikli |>atiiMits in a hospital in India, cliasoil t li ti annml rin^lcador for U>0 yunls, (•(irncreil liiin, and llien liad hini urrrsl.oi.i. i-'or tiiis conragt'ous a*d — on April 13 last vonr, licr l27t li birtliday — Ihe London Lazeltu annouiu'C'd she is uwarded Ihe 0.15.1-:. TTer fatlmr, a l'anner, livcs at Cinila,Ncatli, (rlamorgan. ; This is fhe story of Ihe "artion": 1 " (>u Ijic nighl (>f April 13, IS'15, a s'oions knifi- fighl hroke out hidutH'U a gn»up of Sikh |mlients in the Indian sci'tioii of Ihe British General llospitai at Ti iinulglierry. ; "Tvvo of the uien reeeived slalis from wiiif'h oue. of tliem died. Sister Lilian cntered the ward to find an injured nian ou tlie fluor lileeiling from a woilud and still heing 'beaten up. "With cuniplete disregard for her owa personal safely, she foieed her way t.li rough Ihe Hashing knives, sueceeding ia dispersing the mob. . • "She then went after the ringleader, who. ihough uruied, took friglit and bolied. 1 ii a swil't 100 vards dasli she overhauled liiin and liad hini arrested." The Loudon Gazette eitation snys: "She dispiayed great eourago and init iative. ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 July 1946, Page 2
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