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Told to Bruce Funnell by Pauline Philpots

My Grandfather during the war was a Mould Setter in the Firth and John Browns Steel Works.

One night while he was working Sheffield started getting heavily bombed, all the men working with him went off to the shelter but the furniss that they where working on was ready for tapping.

If it was left the steel inside would have spoiled or worse the furniss could explode. Henry George Martin Elliott, at the age of 61, stayed behind and tapped the furnis (emptied the steel into the ingot moulds).

For this heroic act he was awarded by recommendation of the First Lord of the Admiralty for work done during the was the British Empire Medal. We still have the medal in the family.

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