A PLUCKY ACTION.
CABLE NEWS.
WINS REWARD OF KING EDWARD MEDAL.
United Press Association— Copyright, LONDON, March « A King Edward medal of the first class has been awarded to McWhirter McClelland. "While two steeplejacks were fixing a lightning conductor on a chimney at Newmains, Lanarkshire, one was overcome by gas fumes and fainted on a nine-inch scaffold. His colleague hold him on a plank, the man being unconscious. McWhirter McClelland, who had never climbed a chimney before, ascended' 180 feet and rescued the steeplejack despite the risk of death from the fumes.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2751, 4 March 1910, Page 5
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92A PLUCKY ACTION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2751, 4 March 1910, Page 5
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