SOS hero's gongs for sail

Titanic radio man's war medals set to fetch £10k

- BY GEORGE MAIR

WAR medals won by a hero wireless operator on the Titanic could fetch £10,000 at auction later this month.

Harold Bride made one of the world's first SOS signals after the "unsinkable" liner struck an iceberg on April 15, 1912, with the loss of more than 1500 passengers and crew.