Award to Dead Airman
Mr. Geoffrey De Havilland. who was killed on September 27 when the jet aircraft lie was testing crashed in the Thames Estuary, has been awarded the British Empire Medal. Land Mine Kills Germans
A land mine killed four German prisoners ‘of war and wounded a Frenchman and a German during minesweeping at Saint Christophe racecourse, near Beauvais. The Germans during the war stored rocket bombs on the course, which was heavily mined.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22196, 5 December 1946, Page 3
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76Award to Dead Airman Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22196, 5 December 1946, Page 3
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