WORKMAN'S BRAVE ACT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1926, Page 3

WORKMAN'S BRAVE ACT

A thrilling scene in the West End ot London last autumn, when a man engaged on the erection of a high building fell and was saved by the.bravery of a comrade, who pinned him down on a narrow girder, is recalled by the announcement in the "London Oozette" of the bestowal by the King of the Edward Medal on George Locke, leading hand of steelwork erectors, employed by Dorman, Long, and Company, Ltd., says the "Newcastle Weekly Chronicle." On Bth October, 1925,' Locke was engaged in the erection of steelwork for the rebuilding of the premises of Messrs. Bourne and Hollingaworth, in Oxford Btreet. He and another workman named Frederick Dowser were standing on parallel girders on the fourth floor level, when Dowser tripped and fell, striking his head in his fall and lying stunned on. the girder. The girders on which the men were working wero only seven inches in width, and wero no fewer than 7ft apart. Locke, on seeing his comrade fall, with great presence of mind immediately leapt across the intervening space and, throwing himself upon, the legs of the fallen man, pinned him to the girder until help arrived, and they were taken back to safety.