MISTAKEN FOR TARGET
GIRL SHOT READ. AEROPLANES AT PRACTICE. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 15. Seeing a child crying because her bail had been carried to sea, Jean Chesterton, 15, and her sister, Joan, IS, from Ilford, who were holidaying in Leysdown, Kent, rowed a quarter of a mile and recovered it in the neighbourhood of a row of buoys which the Air Force have used as targets since the War. Suddenly five Territorial pianos arrived and began machine gun practice at the buoys. One of them, mistaking the girls ’ boat for a target, fired a burst of shots, hitting Jean, who crumpled up in the stern. Other bullets pierced the boat. Joan signalled to the plane and pulled as fast as she could for the shore in the hope of saving her sister’s life. The Territorials ’ ambulance and doctor met her boat and found that Jean had been killed instantly. They carried Joan, who had collapsed, to her bungalow and a grief-stricken mother.
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Northern Advocate, 16 August 1933, Page 5
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