FLIGHT-CAPTAIN JOE HAMMOND.
LONDON PAPER SEEKS HIS WHEREABOUTS. STORY OF ONE OF HIS ADVENTURES. Tho London Daily Express publishes, the following:— What has become of Captain Hammond, one of our early airmen, and a singularly daring one? Tho last 1 heard of him was towards tho ond of 1916. when he was at Lincoln testing now machines for the War Office. He was then on the point of leaving for Russia as a flying instructor, since when none seems to have heard of him. While np in a new machine at Lincoln something Went wrong, and Hammond had to make an involuntnr landing.on the root" of the local lunatic asylum. He managed to extricate himself just before the machine slid over the edge and "crashed." Tn relating the incident he said that the only people who kept their heads ware the lunatics.
[Captain Hammond, who was a na tivo of Feilding. was killed while fly ing in America.'C
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3778, 2 May 1919, Page 2
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