DEATH IN BURMA
SQUADRON LEADER INGRAM STRENUOUS EFFORTS TO SAVE LIFE (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, July 14. Strenuous efforts were made to save the life of a New Zealand airman who was injured and later developed tetanus when his plane crashed in Burma. Two R.A.F. nurses were flown to Imphal to help to save the airman’s life. The first European women to enter Manipur State since the evacuation of all European women five months ago, they are Sister Barbara Macdonald and Sister Patricia Dawson. The New Zealander suffered a broken nose and a cut lip when his plane crashed. Thirteen days later, when he was almost ready to leave hospital, he developed tetanus. Squadron Leader Doran, formerly of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, asked for nurses and special drugs to be sent by plane. Eggs and milk were also specially flown across the mountains to the hospital.
In connection with the above message, the Air Department advises that Squadron Leader Mervin Robert Bruce Ingram, D.F.C., of Dunedin, died on Tuesday last. The announcement of his death was made in the Daily Times yesterday. Squadron Leader Ingram's father is Mr C. W. L. Ingram, of Dunedin.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25588, 15 July 1944, Page 4
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