Serjeant HARRY FITZSIMMONS

As Private Harry Fitzsimmons, 1st Battalion, The West Yorkshire Eegiment (The Prince of Wales's Own).

On the 31st May and 1st and 2nd June, 1935, Fitzsimmons was on rescue duty in the area of Quetta City to the east of Sandeman Hall. He worked with conspicuous energy and devotion to duty throughout the period of rescue work, and in onjunction with others was responsible for saving several lives. On 1st June, in order to rescue an Indian whom he knew to be buried alive, Fitzsimmons, at great risk to his own life, made a passage under the debris of a house into which he was able to crawl. On reaching the man he discovered a woman lying dead on top of him, who was pinned down by a stout beam across her leg. In order to release the man, whom he eventually saved, he had to saw off the woman's leg with a carpenter's saw. The remains of the building, and the passage he made, were in imminent danger of collapse during the whole period he was working. Fitzsimmons' action was a very gallant one and worthy of special

recognition.