HEROIC AIRMEN
By Talegraph—Press Association—Copy rlgh I
•(Received May 16, 4 p.m.) PARIS, Alay 16
During the Ypres battle a French monoplane while reconnoitring was struck by shrapnel. It contrived to reach the French lines, when it fell. Rescuers found the observer dead. The pilot had fainted from his wounds. The pilot related that a shell burst, and he was blinded. His machine was at a height of six thousand feet. The observer was badly wounded, but ho directed the pilot to the French lines, and gave the last order to volplane. On nearing the landing-place - he expired.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9045, 17 May 1915, Page 2
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