Mexborough and Swinton Times May 19, 1939

Youngest First-Aider.

When accidents happen on the road most men and women have to stand helplessly by. They have no idea what to do.But if anyone is injured in the Brampton district there is just a chance that one person will not be at a loss for a knowledge of first aid, He is ten-years-old Willis Houlton, of Knollbeck Crescent, and at ten years of age he is believed to be the youngest qualified ambulance man in the country.

Willis attends Brampton Ellis Junior School and, encouraged by his father, who was at one time a member of competitive first aid teams, he attended every class and lecture at the Brampton Welfare during the winter.

At the beginning of the session he was told that he was too young. But he could not be dissuaded. He wanted to know about bandaging, Tourniquets and the like.             So they let him go on. In February he entered himself for the class examinations and now news has come to hand that he was successful in taking his first year certificate.

Willis says he means to go on with this first aid business. Everybody ought to know what to do, he argues. And he never means to be without the modicum of knowledge that might mean all the difference between life and death for someone.