THE FIRST PARACHUTIST
DEATH ANNOUNCED’
(Rec. 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 13. The first parachutist has died in Britain at the age of 85. He is Patrick Young Alexander, who in 1896 jumped from a balloon.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25277, 14 July 1943, Page 2
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