SCOUT’S STOICISM.
CORNWELL AWARD GRANTED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May' 2. The highest honour in the Boy Scout movement, the Cornwell Award for bravery, has been made to PatrolLeader Roger- Kingsford, aged 14, of Nelson, for stoical endurance of suffering. Advice to this effect was received to-dav by the Boy Scout Headquarters in Wellington from London. The Cornwell Award is made for specific acts of physibal courage coupled with pre-eminently high character and devotion to duty, or for bravery in saving life in exceptional circumstances, or for undergoing great suffering .in an heroic manner. Kingsford’s recommendation was made under the last heading. About a year ago he went to hospital with osteomyelitis in a leg. which was amputated. He underwent nine operations with 26 anaesthetics and 13 blood transfusions. In the early stages of his illness the doctors despaired of , his life. Still confined to hospital, throughout the long 1 illuces he has borne out the Scout precepts and the surgeon in charge of the case, Dr. 'W. D. Stoney Johnston. Commissioner of Scouts f in Nelson, wrote: ’ < His courage, cheerfulness and manliness have never, been surpassed in my care of the sick during the last 30 years of practice.” . x
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 131, 3 May 1940, Page 2
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201SCOUT’S STOICISM. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 131, 3 May 1940, Page 2
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