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AIR COMMANDER SAMSON. A FAMOUS OFFICER. IIIvS PART IX TIIE WAT. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) lie. ei\eel 11.5 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Oct. 31. Air-Commander Samson, one of the most famous of war personalities and a pioneer of British naval flying, has been restored to full pay as from October 1. There was a surprise in 1927 when lie was placed on hall-pay, though he was then only forty-four. It is explained that no post was then available. The Germans, in the war time, offered a reward for his capture alive or dead.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 November 1928, Page 5
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