LONDON HEROES
FIRE FIGHTING UNITS DEATH AT THEIR ELBOW GALLANTRY OF WOMEN Rec. 12.30 a.m. London, Sept. 13. After touring metropolitan districts to-day, Mr. Wyndham McBane, Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Home Security, in a broadcast paid a striking tribute to London's fire defence units. , He said blackened men with bloodshot eyes were manning their hoses among the dying flames, scorning relief, which they knew was not available. Women ambulance drivers were waiting to take away casualties while the fires threaten to cut off their retreat. Men work on in the presence of a time bomb until it explodes causing deaths among them. These things were woven in the tapestry of the country's heroism, men and women working by the light of a fire with death at their elbow.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1940, Page 7
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