Life-Saving Medal For St. John Worker
NAPIER, August 29. /Phe plucky action of snatching a two-year-old boy, Alan Maurice Murray, " from almost beneath th'e whjeels of an express train at Ihe Palmerston North railway station in September, 1915, has won for Miss Coralie E.. Phillips, of Taradale, the award of the silver life-saving medal or the Order of Bt. John. The Duke of Gloueester, Grand Prior of the Order, has approved , tb,e award to Mi$s Phillips, who reeeived a brokeh arih when she risked' her life t'o save the cllild. The medal was awarded as the result of inquiries made by the boy 's f athef, Mr. A. Murrav, of Auckland, whose life was also saved by Miss Phillips last year. Lady District Officer of the St. J ohn nursing cadets for Hawke's Bay, Miss Phillips was on duty at the Hawke 'a Bay Spring Show last year when a men came to her with a cut wrist. An artery was severed and he was in danger of bleeding to death. She held the artery, stauncliing the flow of blood until he reached hospital. His subsequent inquiries reVeaied that she was the saint person who had saved his son fromdeath three years before.
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 August 1949, Page 6
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203Life-Saving Medal For St. John Worker Chronicle (Levin), 30 August 1949, Page 6
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