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Awards for Gallantry
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William McFall |
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Edward Medal, First Class | |||
| Date: | 14 Apr 1911 | ||
| Colliery: | Canadian-Pacific Railway | ||
| Occupation: | Driver | ||
Whitehall, September 21, 1911.
His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to award the Edward Medal of the First Class to Mrs. McFall, the widow of the late William McFall, an engine-driver on the Canadian-Pacific Railway, under the following circumstances:mdash;
On the 14th of April, 1911, a passenger train from Ottawa was approaching North Wakefield when the driver McFall suddenly perceived a gap in the track between 50 and 100 feet wide and over 20 feet deep caused by thaws and rain. The fireman jumped off the engine, but McFall put on the emergency brakes and sticking to his engine managed to bring the train to a standstill. The engine, however, fell into the gap, and McFall received terrible injuries, from which he died. There were forty passengers in the train, and had it not been for McFall's heroic devotion to his duty serious loss of life would probably have occurred.
Source: London Gazette (22 Sep 1911)
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