AIRMAN HERO

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1930, Page 7

AIRMAN HERO

BRITISH SOLDIER’S SACRIFICE

LIFE GIVEN FOR OTHERS

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN.—-COPYRIGHT.]

(Recd. Aug. 9, noon.)

LONDON, August 8

Twelve hundred soldiers, Royal Fusiliers, ending manouvres on the Sussex Downs, witnessed a hero’s death, when Air Pilot Sergt. Owen Mac Nair, aged 25, who had swooped in order to demonstrate machinegunning of infantr, swerved deliberately and crashed in order to avoid killing adjacent infantrymen, whom he could not. have otherwise avoided.

A SYDNEY TRAGEDY.

SYDNEY, August 8.

A Moth aeroplane crashed and fell over one thousand feet at BrightonLe Sands. The pilot, .1. Armstrong, aged twenty-eight, was killed. The spectators are of the opinion that the petrol tank of the plane exploded in mid-air, as Armstrong’s body fell a considerable distance from the machine, and it was horribly mangled and burned. The tank was found close to the body.

AMY JOHNSON.

LONDON, August 8.

Hull’s gift to Miss Amy Johnson is a silver globe, ornately mounted, on which her flight route is marked out in red enamel. The stopping places are in black. MATTHEWS’ PROGRESS. (Received August 9, 11 a.m.) RANGOON, August 8. _ Matthews is limping, though he is otherwise fit. He is ready to attempt to fly again to Australia from Eng land, and is sailing homeward on August 16.