‘Anyone remember my rescue hero dad?’

Nov 5 2008 by Barry Gibson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

The two men were walking next to a mill dam in Milnsbridge in March, 1961, when they saw Nora Diskin, nine, and her eight-year-old sister Helen floundering in the water.

Wilfred, who was 17 at the time, dived in and dragged the sisters over to the bank and James pulled them to safety.

William said: "I’d like to meet Mr Beever and learn more about my father from his best friend’s point of view."

William, who now lives in Manchester, was born a few years after the Milnsbridge incident.

His parents took him to Australia in November, 1965, when he was nine months old. They travelled Down Under through a cheap resettlement scheme which earned its participants the nickname Ten Pound Poms.

But in 1967 William’s parents were killed in a car crash. They were both 23.

Anyone with information about Mr Beever can call William on 0161 368 3467.