HERO BECOMES A THIEF.
Seven years ago a Royal Air Force aeroplane flying from Mosul to Bagdad crashed in flanes. The pilot was terribly injured. The observer, then a young man aged 22 years, was only slightly hurt. Without a moment's pau'e he picked the pilot up, and for two days staggered across the desert with his burden until, semi-conscious and suffering an agony of thirst, he teached a dressing station. His sacrifice was in vain—the pilot died. Recently, says the Sunday Dispatch, the same young observer was sentenced to four months' imprisonment in London for stealing'a woman's coat • worth - £250.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21159, 16 April 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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101HERO BECOMES A THIEF. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21159, 16 April 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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