SURGERY IN FLOODED BOILER-ROOM
DOCTOR'S GALLANTRY ON A SINKING DESTROYER. The Albert Medal was recently awarded to Surgeon-Lieutenant William Fryer Harvey, R.N.,- for an act of great gallantry following a collision between two British destroyers on June 28. Surgeon-Lieutenant Harvey wag sent on board, the more seriously damaged destroyer : to render ■ assistance to the injured. Hearing that a stoker petty 'officer was pinned by the arm in a damaged compartment, Harvey immediately went down and amputated tho arm, this being the only means of freeing the petty officer. . . • ' ,; The boiler-room at the time was flooded and full of fumes from the escaping oil. This alone constituted a,great danger to anyone in the compartment, and SurgeonLieutenant Harvey collapsed from this cause after performing the operation, and had to be hauled out of the compartment. . Moreover,- nt any time the ship might have broken in two, and all hands were fallen in on deck, wearing lifebelts, at the time, in order to be ready for this eventuality.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 85, 4 January 1919, Page 8
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165SURGERY IN FLOODED BOILER-ROOM Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 85, 4 January 1919, Page 8
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