NELSON PILOT HONOURED
(P.A.) NELSON, This Day. Flight Lieutenant R. D. Max, of Nelson, has been awarded the D.F.C. Cabled advice to this effect was received today by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Max, Brightwater. Educated at Nelson College, Flight Lieutenant Max joined the Royal Air Force before the war and was granted a commission. He served with the Advance Striking Force in France as a bomber pilot, and his services there were recognised by the French Government, which awarded him the Croix de Guerre. After taking part in many raids on Germany, he was selected to fly American bombers across the Atlantic and was engaged in this work until this month.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 41, 16 August 1941, Page 10
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