FIRST CASUALTIES IN ACTION
Second Echelon Troops
MEN HURT BY BURSTING
BOMB
(From the Official War Correspondent with the New Zealand Expeditionary
Force iu Britain.)
ENGLAND, September 27. The’Second Echelon’s first casualties
in enemy action were sustained today when an aerial bomb burst" 15 feet ahead of a full bus containing members of the Auckland Battalion. The bus was overturned and two men were slightly wounded, in the face and thigh respectively. •
The bus was returning from a swimming parade. The bomb was one of several dropped in a south-eastern town when a formation of 16 enemy planes heading toward London was broken up by anti-aircraft guns and British fighters.
Two of the raiders suffered severely at the hands of the British fighters. One German pilot who landed his machine intact but was himself- badly wounded was captured and rushed to hospital by members of the Wellington Battalion.
During the same fight a member of a composite battalion formed from the
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Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 43, 4 October 1940, Page 7
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161FIRST CASUALTIES IN ACTION Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 43, 4 October 1940, Page 7
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