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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17394, 3 February 1917, Page 12

Royal Flying Corps friends tell me (writes " Quex Senior" in the London "Evening News") of an excruciatingly funny incident which recently befell one of our gallant aeroplane observers. He had lost his right leg before the war, and when he joined up in the Air Service a year ago he wore a cork substitute. A fortnight ago his machine came a cropper, mowed down a. tree in falling, and buried him beneath, fracturing his cork leg. Calmly lighting a cigarette, he sat; among the debris, awaiting rescue, with his false limb flapping idly back and fro—much to the astonishment and admiration of a largo crowd, dumbfounded at so - marvellous an exhibition of "endurance and pluck."