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Show HE EARNED HIS MEDAL, Heroic Act of a Stoker on a lirltllh Warship. Towards the end of the year 1897 the British torpedo-boat Thrasher, with its mates Lynx and Sunflsh, left St. Ives on a passage to Falmouth. On the way the Thrasher grounded on a point, causing serious injury to the boilers and the bursting of the main feed-pipe. The burst pipe instantly filled the stokehold with scalding steam. In it were two stokers, Edward Ed-ward Lynch and James Paul. All the rest of the boat's company were land-ed land-ed on the rocks, but the doubling up of the deck had prevented the egress of the stokers by the starboard hatchway. hatch-way. There was still a port hatchway, hatch-way, which was partially closed, and towards this the two men made their way, Lynch in the lead. Directly under un-der the hatchway and discharging , through it, was the break in the steam-pipe. steam-pipe. Lynch rush through it safely, and turned to help his mate Pawl-But Pawl-But an instant convinced him thA Paul was unable to follow. Then Lynch lay down on the deck with his head and face in the escaping steam, seized hold of the sinking Paul, a"3 by a remarkable exercise of force au4 tenacity drew him up on the deck. Lynch then rose to his feet, but " was observed that he was badly scalded scald-ed about the head, arms and upper part of the body. The surgeon began to apply oil and wool to his burns, but he repelled the attention. "I'm all right," he exclaimed; "look after ntf chum! He's very had!" He had saw nothing about the way he had rescued Paul, but his manly conduct led the surgeon to Investigate, and It was ascertained as-certained that, in order to rescue n comrade, he had plunged the w upper part of his body into what w practically a boiling cauldron- Mo than this, it appeared that Lynch ha previously sacrificed his wn P, ,he of escaping from the stokehold .n other way in order to stay with Puii In recognition of this act of seltaac-rlflce seltaac-rlflce and bravery, Lynch wM pr sented with the Albert Medal of t first class, vrnlch Is given primarUJ for gallantry in saving or attempting to save 11 ro t sen. nnd In some cases, for similar acts ashore. Falsehood lm cow ardlco. UiiUou. |
