BRAVERY REWARDED
(British Official Wireless.)
H.M.S. DEVONSHIRE EXPLO« . SION, Officer Aild Marine.
RUGBY, Nov. 20. The Albert Medal has beort awarded to lieub. -Commander Maxwell Hyslop and Marine Albert Streams for gallantry in saving life last July, wlien a heavy exploson caused by a haiig-fir© occurred in tbe turret of HM.S. Devonshire during firing practice in the Aagean Sea, killing sixteen men. Although knowing danger was involved bv heavy aerdite fumes and further explosions, and while the fire was still raging, tliey entered the turret at grave personaf risk to get away the wottnded and prevented the ignition of other cordite charges.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 250, 22 November 1929, Page 7
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102BRAVERY REWARDED Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 250, 22 November 1929, Page 7
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