Not sure if we've come across this before? following up for the Walter Casey drowning (post #143):
Shields Daily News 15 December 1924
GALLANTRY AT AMBLE
presentation to two men at public gathering.
At Amble, yesterday, Mr Robert Middlemiss and Mr H.J.Gardner were presented with the Royal Humane Society’s medals and diplomas, certificates of honour, and a cheque for £10 from the Carnegie Hero Fund Trust, together with the wallet of Treasury notes amounting to £25 each.
There was a large assembly of public at the Coquet Hall Amble. Brass band played through the main streets, and a special orchestra played during the course of the ceremony. Mr John Winter presided, and was supported on the platform by the whole of the Amble U.D.Council, the magistrates, and Superintendent Anderson and Inspector Spratt. The presentation was made by Mr Hugh J.Percy coroner for North Northumberland, who paid a high tribute to the gallantry of the two men in their efforts to save the life of a boy named Walter Casey from the sea.
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