WAR HEROES
SQUAD OF BOY SCOUTS BRAVERY UNDER BOMBING. DEALING WITH OUTBURST OF FIRE. <By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON. May 27. A squad of Boy Scouts wore heroes on the occasion of a recent heavy German aerial attack on a definite objective in south-west England. Equipping themselves with an A.F.S. trailer-pump which they dragged into action behind their scoutmaster’s car, a firefighting squad from the Second Saltash Scout Troop volunteered to deal with a fire, although warned that they would be subjected to constant bombing. The party had not been working long before a seventeen-year-old lad was pierced right through his body by shrapnel. The leader of the party, aged eighteen, had just refused relief in a most dangerous position when he was killed by a bomb. His younger brother, with an injured arm and leg. made ncmention of his injuries but volunteered to fetch a stretcher party and dragged himself along the ground for half a mile when an ambulance picked him up.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 May 1941, Page 6
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168WAR HEROES Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 May 1941, Page 6
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