AIRMAN HONOURED
Bar to Flying Cross United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 10. A bar to his D.F.C. has been awarded to Pllot-Officer Eric Stanley Lock, who, while on patrol in the Dover area in September, engaged three Heinkels. one of which he shot down into the sea and destroyed. H displayed great courage in the face of heavy odds, states the citation, and his skill and coolness in combat enabled him to destroy 15 enemy aircraft in 19 days. An Australia , Sergeant Holt, serving with the Royal Air Force, has been awarded the D.F.M. He shot down 18 'planes. A month after the British evacuated Norway, Sergeant Hol. piloted a damaged ’plane from Norway to Malmo with 18 airmen on board, and obtained a boat, in which they journeyed to England. On this adventurous trip they were machines u> ned from the air, and the only officer on board was killed.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21783, 12 October 1940, Page 7
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