On This Day, 22 January 1917

Birmingham Mail

Monday 22 January 1917

PLUCKY BIRMINGHAM BOY SCOUT.

At the annual gathering of the Aston Division of Boy Scouts at Bracebridge Hall, Aston, on Saturday evening, Harry Clifton, aged 13, of 150. Berners Street, Lozells, a member of the 1st Lozells Troop, was presented by Mr. R. M Hills, the Assistant Commissioner, with a medal in recognition of bravery displayed in stopping a runaway horse. Mr. Goodrich, the scoutmaster, explained that Clifton, who attends the Lozells Street Council Schools, was wheeling a basket carriage with a boy inside, and seeing a driverless horse attached to a cart coming along at a rapid pace, pushed his charge into the gutter and caught hold of the bridle of the horse. Although pulled off his feet, he hung on and succeeded in bringing the animal to a standstill. On the man in charge of the horse coming up he offered the boy a shilling, but he refused the coin saying “It was his good turn that day”.