LATE AIRMAN'S HISTORY
GOOD PROGRESS BY AUTHOR INCIDENT OF NO MAN'S LAND' [by telegraph—owx correspondent] PALMERSTON NORTH, Tuesday Good progress is being made with the writing of the history" of the late Squadron-Leader M. C. McGregor, by an anonymous author, who hopes to have the volume in the press in from Bix to eight weeks should certain official information from England come to hand promptly. The author has been fortunate in securing details, hitherto unknown, of exploits of SquadronLeader McGregor during the Great War. It is no£ generally known, for instance, that the airman not only accounted for a number of enemy aeroplanes, but was shot down himself by three German opponents. This was in August, 1918. He landed in No Man's Land, 30 yards from the German trenches, and immediately became the target for German fire. "He managed to crawl out pf his machine and get over to the British lines, by way of shell holes, and then created considerable amusement among the infantry by commenting that he did not like their job. Theie were too many risks about it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22400, 22 April 1936, Page 16
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