MAIMED SOLDIERS IN SWIMMING RACE
Handicapped by the loss of either a leg or an arm—one man having lost both his less—twenty-three maimed soldiers, patients at the Royal Pavilion Hospital, faced Maior-Genera! ir- Samuel Hickgon, starter nrnl judge, in a swimming race from the head of the Palace Pier, Brighton, to the shore.
With one exception nil tho men finished the course—a third of a mile. Private J. Pitlendrigh, Rifle Brigade, who hns lost both legs, was anions those who finished, and ho received a special prize. Tne competitors had beep trained by "Professor" Hurst, of pantomime-cat tame, and the event aroused extraordinary interest, a great crowd assembling and cheering the men.
Lance-Corporal J. Ci. Bly won the rnco m Smiri. Msec.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19191021.2.60
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 22, 21 October 1919, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
122MAIMED SOLDIERS IN SWIMMING RACE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 22, 21 October 1919, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in