LEGLESS AIRMAN
NEW ZEALAND INTEREST
GESTURE PROPOSED
The dauntless spirit and gallantry of the legless airman, Squadron Leader D. R. S. Bader, have won great admiration, and not the least of those made to feel proud of his work are the limbless people of New Zealand. The exploits of this Royal Air Force, officer, who now leads, a Canadian Hurricane squadron, were under notice at the recent conference in Wellington of New Zealand war amputees.
I A suggestion had been made by Mr. F. Thompson that it would be a fine gesture on the part of the New Zealand "limbies" if they sent forward a I gift to the legless leader and his squadIron. The setting up of a fund, to which all amputees who desh'ed could contribute, was suggested by Mr. Thompson, and he thought that, through that fund, gifts might be made periodically. In his opinion gifts of butter and honey, to be forwarded by arrangement with the Internal Marketing Department, would be most acceptable to Squadron Leader Baden and his men. He commended the suggestion to members of the conference, and backed it with an offer to set the fund going. > - The conference took the matter up. and decided to refer it to the committees of war amputees in the four main New Zealand centres.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 134, 3 December 1940, Page 8
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218LEGLESS AIRMAN Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 134, 3 December 1940, Page 8
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