A PLUCKY RESCUE
BY A RETURNED "SOLDIER, ....Yesterday. mornuvg.about.9.3o, a boy named Chittenden, aged ahbut 8 years, a visitor from Nelson, while .bathing in the. Hutt. River, cot into, deep water and was on the point of drowning, when a returned soldier., named. "John Stanton observed the boy.in .difficulties and .plunged into . the river,' fully clotlied, .and rescued the boy. ..• First aid waß ,rende'red and the hoy.was brought back to life. "The . soldior 'was assisted by Mr. Cairns and Mrs. Cameron, the wife of the local constable..'. The soldier,we are informed, is suffering from shell shock, which makes his. action the more meritorious and deserving of recognition.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3012, 24 February 1917, Page 8
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107A PLUCKY RESCUE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3012, 24 February 1917, Page 8
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