Jones W – 1927

BB Gazette Vol.36 No.3 – The Boys’ Brigade Cross for Heroism has been awarded to Private William Jones, aged 13, 23rd Liverpool Company, for saving a Boy of 9 from drowning at Egremont Pier on the River Mersey, on the 1st August, 1927.

The little Boy had fallen in at a place where the strength of the tidal current is notorious, and although Jones had just been relieved of splints after a broken arm, he gallantly dived in and succeeded in saving the child’s life. Jones has also been awarded the Gallantry Medallion of the Liverpool Schools.

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