GUYNEMER INJURED.
DASHING FRENCH AIRMAN. EIGHT MACHINES TO HIS TALLY. (Received 1.5 p.m.) PARIS, Jlnrch 17. Lieut. GuVncrr.er has been wounded during an engagement at Verdun, lie started on his daily hunt, using a machine with which he was not familiar. He engaged two German machines, and brought down the first. Then he attacked the second, but misjudged the speed of his own machine. The enemy airman riddled Guynemer's machine with bullets. :ind Guynemer was wounded in the face and one of his arms. In spite of tins, however, he landed safely, using his uninjured arm. He is not dangerously wounded, but will be incapacitated for some weeks.
Guynemer is the French airman who on Monday last brought down a German aeroplane, which fell in flames within the French lines. That made the eighth macnine he had brought down, six of them falling in the French lines, and two in the German lines.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 67, 18 March 1916, Page 6
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