AIRMAN'S ADVENTURE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12067, 24 July 1917, Page 4

AIRMAN'S ADVENTURE.

[From Our Correspondent.] DUNEDIN, July 23

Advice was received to-day by Mr EWood, of Dunedin, which states that his Youngest brother, First Lieutenant A. Wood of the Royal Flying Corps, is safe. Lieutenant Wood hns had many exciting experiences during the- past two years in France. He took part in the bier, aerial engagement over Lille, in April last, and was then reported as having been seen io fall. In a. letter received by Mr E. Wood the. airman gives a graphic account of his adventure. He. stated that he was flying over Lille in company with several other British airmen, when his engine broke down, hut he managed to keep his machine nuder control and make a landing. During his flight he was surrounded by four Gorman machines, ono of which he succeeded in bringing to earth before his own machine failed. He was taken prisoner by the enemy, and when the mail left was about to be. transferred to an inland prisoners' camp in Germany, along with several British infantry officers. ("p to the time of writing Lieutenant Wood had been well treated by the enemy. Lieutenant, Wood belongs to London, and is only twenty-two years of age. He was formerly a second-lieutenant in the Yorkshire Regiment,, and saw considerable fighting in the trenches an Franco for six months before being transferred to the 7*oval Flying Corps.