Tilly Smith

Tilly Smith ( * 1994) is a British woman who saved at the age of ten years, during the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004, around one hundred people's lives.

She recognized the signs of the tsunami in time and saved as on the beach of Phuket about a hundred people. Thanks to the explanations of her geography teacher, Andrew Kearney at Danes Hill Preparatory School in Oxshott, Surrey, who had his students explained tsunamis, she realized what it meant when the sea retreated. She told her parents Penny and Colin Smith. This then warned other tourists and employees of their hotel. The hotel evacuated the beach then, a few minutes before the arrival of the flood wave. According to the tabloid The Sun Maikhao the - beach was one of the few beaches on Phuket, where there were no deaths or serious injuries caused by the tsunami.

On September 9, 2005, she was awarded the Thomas Gray Special Award of the Marine Society & Sea Cadets of Second Sea Lord Vice Admiral James Burnell - Nugent. In November 2005, Tilly met at the United Nations Bill Clinton. In December 2005, Tilly was appointed by the French magazine Mon Quotidien to the child of the year. Together with the ten-year Thai patiwat Komkla, who also survived the tsunami, she wore on December 26, 2005 at a ceremony in Khao Lak for the first anniversary of the disaster poems.

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