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Show TWO TBI BOYS WW WED 'If. c: Preliminary' Bad Record in School Lost Sight of in Honors for Bravery. OFFICIALS TELL STORY Their Action Speaks Well for School Wherein They Were Trained. HpeHal Cable to The Tribune. LONDON. Dec. W.-Tno truant :liX)t-boys :liX)t-boys have win llio V. C 'limy aro Priver Drain, R. II. of Dark'.us, arid l-i iu:o Ooipoiul Fuller of Swanst-a. Driver Dniin of the Thtrty-ui t-nt h hat-i-r?', H. H. A., as a boy nU.ii'Itd the LlALU-laiie E.hoo!, liav!:hiK. ftiul the master mas-ter there destjril.Hfi liiin ;fs t Ins ''one of tho. worst bo In the s iiuol." An lu-leivlcw lu-leivlcw with his ivu-rntfl dl.ckecs why he carnal wucli a clt.ii Hutef, H was be-c;insM be-c;insM ho liatod school nmch piefonlnH to "mliM cows." This v.ejk!teij? of young; Dialu lA lilni to hla beiiyr s-'nt to ilia WuJtluimatow inrnnt ai-liool in l'.UU. I'r.tin Jolnot tit uruiy two years Big-x Ttm cifii'-iul account of the act for which ho was u warded tho V. C. to very brit : "At Ia) Cateau on August C3, in a vol-unlet-r, U to Have k"3 uiivler lire fivru hostilo Infantry, who were 1:0 yards away."' ; Had Not Heard of Son. I Little d:j.iminK about hih ur.'s roura- j I t;trrl.d loui with htm all day a news- j J papor witli ihe aiiii'.MirK'.'ncnt in It. knew j nothliK about u until he had his at-; at-; itfctiou drviTi to It l y a ic-ilow workman j in t lie evening-. " j I Oa behiuf cf the tow-n, ti.e cl:alrn:an j of the iSiirkmi," council. A. RiaKe. h;ui i sent the V. C. hero ih-j followniiK wile: j I "Heartiest conciutuIatiiMi?. The town I of Thriving 1b pro n -3 of ouA Naturajiy, at Driver Drain's old tichoul j , there In great enthusiasm and the art j master Is engaged tn jointing Lh- hero a , portraJt. in be hung in th-3 M:hofiL Dance O.'r;.orvi Kjl.cr, V. C, Llio first VCi:i:r.an to rv-'eiva the t-ovtlcd dittinc-tlnn. dittinc-tlnn. 3s, when a toy. n truant at a- hool and as a result was ::.t to t":? ?'an.-a j triiarn ( now the industrial) Kchr.ot. The i fact ha Itakcd cut In the icl. owing home I oi'isff. K t'.er, addre.-s-ed to the F.-retaxy j of the Swansea education comniltteo; j School Congratulated. Reformatories Department. Home Of-rce, Of-rce, Wt-.uehall, November IS-, 1. Dear t':r I learn toe ay tl.at J.ane Corporal William Fuller of the s-e-"-on i battery, Welsh reim?nt, i' n o'.d Intrate of your school at Lony-maem Lony-maem May I say how much I con- gratuate the school on hax lr.j turned out a toy who lias i roved himself ?o j brave a soldier, and who, I hear. Is a'so helping locallv now to farther recmliir. j in the t wai.sea district. Fuller's conduct sneaks much for the general training which he received re-ceived 'h?;i a member of the s Aool, and I should like to tuggest thnt sir.c hpe-:ial permanent tablet should be piaeed in the school dining room, rrccrdir.g the circumstances under whirti Fuller has beej awarded the cross in the words UFed In the London Lon-don Gazette cf Monday last. Yours faithfuU v, CHARLLS E. -V- RUSSELL. -The local education authority ie to be ; asked to place a brass tablet in the , school recording how Fuller carried Captain Cap-tain Haggard to a place of safety when under a very heavy tire. |