TRAGIC PADDOCK
{SECOND FORCED LANDING FARMER'S FATHER KILLED SYDNEY, Nov. 20 ThG paddock where the Yickers WelJesley bomber made a forced landing near Richmond yesterday belonged to Mr. Malcolm Smith, the farmer who had to fall on his faco to avoid being struck by a wing of the machine. His father was decapitated by an Air Force aeroplane which mado a forced landing three years ago in the same paddock;
Mr. E. Somerville, the pilot of that particular aeroplane, later married Mr. Smith's daughter. Mr. Somerville was afterwards killed in an Air Force crash at Point Cook.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23208, 30 November 1938, Page 14
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97TRAGIC PADDOCK New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23208, 30 November 1938, Page 14
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