"He said that speaking of John Boyle, the greaser, who, during two days of agony in the boat never complained, and then carried on work in the engine-room until too weak even to sit on a box in the stokehole, when he was moved to one of the few rooms not gutted and found dead in the morning, the report state ed: "In this unspectacular manner passed a hero."
"The total award, said his Lordship, would be £14,700, of which be awarded £2,000 to Mr. Hawkins, £2,000 to Mr. Pollard the chief engineer, and sums ranging from £11,400 to £100 to the other plaintiffs. To the personal representatives of John Boyle he awarded £1,000.
"He could not quit the case without thanking everybody concerned for one of the happiest working days of his life spent in listening to a very modest recital by two gallant gentlemen concerning a memorable achievement." un plaintiffs without charts or compasses proceeded with her hundreds of Am Marshal Sir Arthur M. Long-more, whose pilot's certificate is No. 72, dated April 25, 1911, is not the only survivor of the first "one hundred" who were granted flying certificates. There are others, including the present Minister of Transport, whose certificate is No. 1. But he is the only one who is still flying and fighting, and the only one of the present RAF. chiefs. whose Certificate comes within the first "one hundred." Air Chief Marshal Sir R. Brooke-Popham, the new Commander-in-Chief, The Far East, has his certificate, No. 108, dated July 18, 1911, and Lord Trenchard's in No. 270 and is dated Aug. 19, 1912.
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