WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 19 March 1941, Page 3

WAR ITEMS

AWARDS FOR AFRICAN AIRMEN. RUGBY, Marc hl7. Squadron Leader R. M. Longmore, son cf Air Chief Marshal Sir A. Longmore, Air Officer Commanding in the Middle East, is among many R.A.F. personnel whose services are recogn’sed in the latest list of awards. Souadron Leader Longmore’was born in* 1915 and was commissioned from Cranwell in 1935, he has received the 0.8. E. The awards range through almost every rank of the service. Air ViceMarshals N H. Bottomley, F. J. Linell H R M. Reid, and R. E. Saul receive ’ the C.B. Acting Air ViceMarshal C. R. Bromet, Air Commodore E. S. Goodwin, and Group Captain G. M Lawson received the C. 8., and 44 'officers besides Squadron Leader Longmore are awarded the 0.8. E. . „ Other awards comprise one M.c. two A.F.C.S., (one posthumous), two M.M. three A.F.M., and 14 M.B’s. RUGBY. March 17. The brief phrase “The pilot of one aircraft is safe,” in an R.A.F. Middle East communique, . when describing the attack on the Diredawa aerodrome on March 15, is vividly illustrated by a statement in an air commun'que issued in Na robi. which says: “The pilot landed under artillery fire, and was picked up by his fellow-pilot, who flew the single-seat-er heme.