SHOT AT BY ’PLANES
LONDON GIRL KILLED TERRITORIALS' BLUNDER [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. August 16, 1 p.m.) LONDON, August 16. Seeing a child crying because her ball had been carried out to sea, Jean Chesterton, 15, and her sister, Joan, 18, residents of Ilford, holidaying at Leysdown (Kent) rowed a quarter of mile and recovered it in the neighbourhood of row buoys, which the Air Force has used as targets, since the war. Suddenly, five Territorial planes arrived, and began machine-gunning the buoys. One mistaking the Chestertons’ boat for a target, fired a burst, hitting Jean, who crumpled up in the stern. Other bullets pierced the boat. Joan sigralled to the planes, and pulled full speed ashore in the hope of saving her sister’s life. Territorials, ambulance and a doctor met the boat, and found that Jean had been killed instantly. They carried Joan, who collapsed, to a bungalow to the grief-stricken mother.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 August 1933, Page 7
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