HEROINE OF A FIRE
Miss Elaine de Chair, who snent several years of her girlhood in Sydney when her father, Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair, was Governor or New South Wales, and whose engagement to Tdx. H. J. A. Hamer, of Fawley, Hampshire, was announced recently, was the heroine of a fire which seriously damaged Cadland House, a famous Hampshire mansion, on May 9, states a London message. Awakened at 5 a.m. by the noise of something falling down a chimney, Miss de Chair found the place on fire and roused the household. When if was found that the telephone was out of order, she put on a coat over her night' attitre, and set out in a car for Fawley to summon the brigade. The car, however, broke down, and Miss de Chair ran half a mile to the village in her bed T room slippers. In the meantime, her fiance and others in the house formed a bucket brigade, using water from a pond in the park. Four brigades eventually succeeded in confining the damage to the west wing of the building. '■■'"',
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 17
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184HEROINE OF A FIRE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 17
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