A GREAT BRITISH AIRMAN.
" SHY AND DELICATE-LOOKING. The correspondent of the Havas Agency (Paris) on the British front telegraphs:— On one of their flights on Sunday our air British fliers, the man who in one day last week accounted for four enemy machines. I have heard since that the same airman brought down od the follow luff day three other enemy machines. The airman has now 37 victories to his credit, five less than Ball, who was killed In the Battle of Arras, and ten less than Bishop. The crack, of whom I write, is in his twenty-second year, a fair-haired, slight, shy, and delicate-looking youncster. Before getting his commission he was a mechanic in the Flying Corps. To-day he commands a unit. Since August his unit has brought down 61 German aeroplanes.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 57, 23 February 1918, Page 19
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133A GREAT BRITISH AIRMAN. Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 57, 23 February 1918, Page 19
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