A LONE VOYAGE
FALMOUTH TO NASSAU VICTORIA CROSS HOLDER. 1 (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 31. (Received Nov. 1, at 5.5 p.m.) Group Captain Rees arrived at Nassau, in the Bahamas, to-day after sailing alone in his eight-ton yacht from Falmouth, via the Azores. The voyage from the Azores took 64 days. Captain Rees won the Victoria Cross during the war by attacking singlehanded 10 enemy planes, bringing down two and continuing the fight, although he was severely wounded, until the other eight scattered.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22100, 2 November 1933, Page 9
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