THE ALBERT MEDAL.
PRESENTED TO A BRAVE BOY. Received December 15, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, December 14. King Edward received Tom Lewis the boy who distinguished himself in the Newport landslip disaster in July last, and presented him with the Albert Medal.
Lewis, who is a boy of fourteen, at the risk of his life, crawled into a small hole 30ft below the surface, and worked in it head duwnwards for two hours, sawing a beam, with a view to releasing a workman who had been overwelmed by the landslip. The earth suddenly floljapsed. Lewis was hurriedly reieued, but the workman was killed. Another workman, who had been pinned down by falling timber and [ earth, was released by the amputation of his legs> but he died soon after wards. The Albert Medal was insti tuted in 1866, for the purpose of rewarding acts of heroism performed -by civilians sea or on land.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9668, 16 December 1909, Page 5
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151THE ALBERT MEDAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9668, 16 December 1909, Page 5
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