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PARIS, Sept, 2
Official.— Pegoud met a glorious • death during a plucky fight over Petitordis. Alone, he daringly attacked a ■German machine, emptying several belts of machine gun ammunftion. A "bullet killed him instantaneously, and Ms machine fell into our lines. <■' Soldiers watched the fight with grow- < ing anxiety, and occasionally, when the positions of the aeroplanes allowed German and French guns joining in' the duel sent shrapnel bursting around the combatants. Suddenly there w«s a shout of rage from the French trenches. Pegoud's machine ■dipped and then fell headlong. His borlv wa.s extricated from the debris.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 3 September 1915, Page 5
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