THE DREAM THAT DID NOT COME TRUE.
When Lieutenant-Colonel H, C. Macdonald, who set from Newfoundland in a Moth to fly the Atlantic was first reported missing, Sir Herbert Basker, the manipulative surgeon, dreamed that he saw the missing airman cast away on a rocky island, and told Mrs. Macdonald so. Another friend had an identical dream, so his wife, who hoped that she was not his widow, went to the Admiralty to see if there might be any hope of her husband being found on Rockall, a lonely island 200 miles west of Scotland. The official, however, had to shake his head, like a doctor who there is no hope, and tell her that it was only a rock. Incidntally, Air Vice-Marshall Sefton Brackner, said that before the flight he was prepared to “bet 10 to 1 on the Commander.”
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2668, 18 December 1928, Page 3
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