AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN.
WORK ON WEST FRONT.
(Commonwealth Official Correspondent.) .y. LONDON, October 23. More than one squadron* of our •wn .Australian Flying CoVps. are now* fighting on the Western front. One* . Aus* trahan .'planjpi'has already . brought ( down a. German, i Another Australian; is missing, after, a .fight ,over ..German tejintpry. One Australian the other : :^ay .was-.', attacked by several . Germans and was brought (down m No Mean's Land. A British officer of a London regiment, seeing the machine, fall, went oilt 'irom the trenches alone, with a view. to attempting the rescue of the pilot.. The first part of the way he managed to keep under cover of a slight rise, but for the last ,part he .was . quite m. the open. Just before he reached the machine this brave man was hit^ but he went on. He found the. Australian ' lying m a shell hole, wounded, but. alive. The* British officer cradled back with this* information v : and two/ non-commissioned _ officers were then sent out Hinder the white flag, which the Germans respected. Stretcherbearers w -followed, and the Australian was brought m. The British officer fortunately was only slightly wounded, and the Australian is now recoggring.*
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14450, 9 November 1917, Page 7
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