Downstream

medals for those brave
enough to try and save
another’s life. In 1882 Bram
Stoker of subsequent Dracula
fame, then in his mid-thirties,
was awarded a bronze medal
for attempting to save a man
in the Thames. On 14
September, at about six in the
evening near Chelsea, a man
aged between sixty and
seventy and presumed to be a
soldier, jumped into the river
from the steamboat Twilight.