On This Day, 4 July 1917

Evening Despatch

Wednesday 4 July 1917

RESCUED BY POLICE

MEDALS FOR SAVING LIFE ENDANGERED BY FIRE

At today’s meeting of the Birmingham Watch Committee the Lord Mayor made awards to four members of the City Police Force on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Life from Fire.

Police-sergeants Robert Metcalf and William Rose (C Division) were presented with the society’s bronze medal and a cheque for two guineas for rescuing five persons  at a fire which occurred in the early hours of December 11, 1916.

Police-constable James Wariner and Victor Arnold were awarded the society’s certificate and a cheque for two guineas for their courageous conduct in rescuing a man who was in bed during a fire on 8 June.

Alderman Brooks also announced that the society’s certificate and a cheque for two guineas had been awarded to Police-constable William Gardner (E271) for rescuing a woman and her child from the bedroom of a licensed house on 27th January, 1917.