A GALIANT FIGURE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14221, 12 February 1917, Page 4

A GALIANT FIGURE.

■Jhe London Times recently . contained a beautifully-written appreciation , by "J.M.B." . pf. the late Lord Lucas, • 'formerly 1 Under-Secretary for 'War, and president' of the Board bf Agriculture. Lord Lucas" was killed in an -aerial fight, and "J.M.8." says of hirti :t---"No ill-will, I am sure/ to whoever brought bi-rn. down,- but rather a."Va.Vo' of ( the hand froiri one- airman to another . .'. y Having, had a very good life 'in the years he spent on the ground, they nevertheless seemed strange- andl stupid to f 'him .after his first flight. He came defwn 'a .different 'man 'from': the pne who .'went' up"Y»nd was /different ever afterwards, as: if he had made a journey into ihe springtime of the world and brought. , back a breath of it. . This is what It is to be a 'true airman ; you may sne the same look in all their- 'faces.'?''- It Is not to be Pondered at that so -many of them fly awav and. never come^haclc.'' ''Brori';Ludas rqwed in trie Oxford bdat, and was a- ' hiotiible rider trel-1 'k'njown in the New Forest, in his favorite snort of rounding up the forest ipdnTJek He lost a leg 'from wortnds received when acting as \a t cbrresponderit in the South African war, but it made; no difference to his .riding.''" Se. was a fresh', 'delightfully.,, Unconventional character; he was a. c haridsdme, fig-nti**^' 'fe^ia ,116/ had the heart of a lion. He was |ppst : the age for flying, but he refused an appointment at home till lie had v**pri litis way to be a flight commander at the front*. ..- .-••■/ i ■ 7 -" .. y