Soldier Picked Up Bomb to Save Haifa Cafe Crowd London, Feb, 24.
The gallant action of Private J. E. Mott, of the Ist Battalion of the Essex Regiment, in picking up a live bomb, which had been thrown into a crowded cafe in Haifa on Christmas Day, and throwing it into the street, where it exploded, has been rewarded.
The War Office announces to-day that the King has approved the award of a medal of the British Empire Military Division for Gallantry.
The announcement states that the Jordania Cafe in Haifa was crowded with soldiers and civilians when a bomb was thrown among them.
Mott, who was seated at a table with some other men of the battalion, picked up the bomb and hurled it through a window into the street, where it exploded with great violence.
Private Mott's. highly courageous act undoubtedly saved several lives and injuries to many of his ions, adds the statement.—Wireless through Reuter.
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