Typical of the camaraderie between opposing wartime airmen was a letter produced by Lieutenant A. R. Fairey at the reunion of Auckland “war birds.” The letter, which was from a cousin of Lieutenant Fairey, living at Hayes, Middlesex, said the writer had received a comnuinication from a German officer at Essen, who was anxious to hand to the relatives some personal relics of an airman named Fairey who crashed on the Belgium-Flanders frontier in 1017. Lieutenant Fairey said it was pleasing to learn of such a gesture after nearly 20 years had passed. He did not know who the airman was, although their names were the same.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 253, 22 July 1936, Page 10
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