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Wartime hero who saved historic building with sandbag held in his teeth honoured

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Ronald Brignall, who saved Cardiff’s City Hall from destruction during a German air raid in the Second World War, has been praised for his efforts.

A man who saved one of Wales’ most historic buildings from an incendiary bomb by holding a sandbag between his teeth and climbing to the roof has been honoured on his 100th birthday.

Mr Brignall was cheered on by the official fire-watchers as he climbed back up the pipe with a fire hose – also gripped in his teeth – to finish putting out the fire. Ronald Brignall, who saved one of Wales’s most historic buildings from an incendiary bomb “I just wanted to make sure the bomb didn’t do any damage to City Hall.”

 

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