Lost Own Life In Saving Young Girl
Received Sunday, 7 p,m. SYDNEY, Dec. 4. A married ex-serviceman, aged 24 years, who was unable to swiiu, saved a girl aged seven from drowning in Hacking River, New South Wales, at the expense of his own life. He was Clive Graham Sayers, of Sydney. When supervising members of a Chureh of England Sunday School party, he saw a girl slip from the bank into the water. He jumped in fully clothed, paddled his way to the giil and pushed her toward the bank. Men in a boat rescued the girl but Sayers sank in 20 feet of water. His body was recovered later.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 December 1949, Page 5
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