BRAVE BOY
INCIDENT IN LONDON. | I THREE WOMEN SAVED. j
A boy aged 16 worked alone inside a huge pile of debris for three hours rescuing people who had been trapped when a bomb struck a block of houses in London. Some people were killed and others injured. The boy. Stanley Pipe, volunteered to be lowered down a small hole cleared at the top of the debris when theories of the trapped people were heard. A post warden in charge of the operation said: "Cries were heard coming from beneath the ruins of one of the- houses. We worked from the top of the debris and made a small hole through which only a small person' could pass. A young lad with a helmet on was standing by. and I asked him: ’Are you going to give me a hand ” and he replied. O.K.’ "He was lowered through the hole by a rope, and with only the light of a torch shone from above reached one woman, who was brought up through the hole. Working his way through the debris, he got into the front of the building, and found two sisters, the Misses Ranwell. pinned under timber beams. "The boy managed to shift the beams, but his way was cut off because of shifting masonry, and he had to drag the women nearer to the front. "A squadron leader of the demolition squad got down, and though he could not get through to the boy. instructed him how to pin up pieces of timber till an aperture was made large enough for Stanley and the two women to be dragged through. Stanley was underneath the debris from 10 p.m. till one in the morning."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1941, Page 9
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