THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 5, 1940. EMPIRE PILOTS HON OURED
LONE VICTORY OVER RUHR STORY
AN AIR BATTLE. over the Ruhr, in which one British bomber fought and defeated three Nazi 'planes, destroying one definitely, and possibly two, has brought distinction to a 25-year-old New Zea land airman.
He is Flying-Officer. Neville Williams, of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He is awarded the D.F.C. in a list of eight awards announced by the Air Ministry.
60-MILE
CHASE GOT IT
A Dornier 17 bom- ber, shot down off the south-east coast of Scotland, was chased sixty miles before it crashed in flames into the sea.
When the Spitfire
DRAKES OF pilots first saw it the
1940
Williams was captain of the lone 'plane that took part in the Ruhr air battle. His feat was the more remarkable for, though his 'plane was riddled with bullets. he brought it safely 'back to the base. He has taken part in 21 attacks on Germany and occupied coun- Air raids and the threat of in- tries since the beginning of thevasion will not stop the annual year and has displayed coolness, contest to decide who shall be courage, and real leadership, says "Knight" of Southampton Old the official statement. Pilot-Officer Bowling Green. Angus Robson has also been This is the oldest bowling green
a
Dornier was trying to bomb
а trawler short distance from the coast.
awarded the D.F.C. He showed in the world, and dates from 1299. NURSED BY
.a
conspicuous courage when carry- The "knighthood" was not in- ing out a bombing attack on war-stituted until 1776. ships at Wilhelmshaven in July. "Once a knight, always
Undeterred by terrific enemy knight," is the order, and tradition gunfire, he swept down to 20 compels the Knights of the Green, feet above the buildings, crossed the harbour, and pressed home his attack on an enemy war ship.
He was born at Woolakra, New South Wales, in 1915, and
re-
WOMAN HE
who supervise the annual competi- TRIED
tions to appear in frock-coats and top-hats with the medal of knight- hood suspended on the chest.
To gain a "knighthood" a com- petitor must win seven points be-
ceived a commission in the Royal fore any of his rivals. The rules
Air Force in 1938.
July.
Five D.F.M.'s -
South
when Drake took up bowls.
"WHY SO KIND"
TO KILL
A Messerschmidt fight-
are strictly observed, and no com- Pilot-Officer Tudhope,
petitor is allowed to approach the African born, is the third to gained..
jack while the end is being player, diving down out of control over a hamlet. in the D.F.C. in these awards.
The tournaments are seldom south-east England, open- He was captain of a 'plane that completed under three days. This was badly hit by a high-explosive year there are some thirty con- ed fire with its machine- shell during an attack on enemy testants. warships at Wilhelmshaven in The green was 300 years old guns. Bullets fell round a nurse from a local bos- pital, who was out with the hospital's collecting Five sergeants are awarded the
dog. Pulling the dog with D.F.M. They are: Wallace Stock- port, Lewis Smith Belton, Sidney
her, the nurse ran for the Ben Fuller, Albert Corsuch
cover of a hedge. ⠀⠀ Goulder, and Lewis Alan White:
TWO Sergeant Stockport
INCIDENTS OF THE
The pilot, who was wounded, AIR-RAIDS ON BRITAIN: A less operator air gunner in Pilot-YOUNG NAZI AIRMAN WOKE baled out before his machine fell Office Robson's 'plane at Wilhelm-UP IN A SOUTH COAST HOS-over the brown of a hill. He was CRASH. picked up by farm labourers and Sergeant Belton was navigator PRESENTLY HE WAS BROUGHT carried on a hurdle to the hos- and bomb aimer in Pilot-Officer
HELP-pital where the nurse works. Tudhope's aircraft. He continued
INGS OF FISH, FRESHLY There he told the nurse, who his duties with great coolness and CAUGHT IN THE CHANNEL, speaks German: "I know I shall courage after his cabin had been POTATOES, GREENS, BUTTER, be well looked after." riddled. by gunfire.
As the battle raged over cemetery nearby, a clergyman held the burial service for a man who was killed in a previous raid.
shaven.
was wire-
HIS
AFTER PITAL
A
MEAL GENEROUS
FRESH FRUIT AND CREAM.
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The widow and the man's son, with bare-headed colleagues of the dead man, stood at the grave- side while the vicar recited the service above the roar of zooming.
Sergeant Fuller and Sergeant
He goggled in amazement as the Goulder were captain and wire loaded tray was put in front of less operator air gunner of an im. But why are you so kind: aircraft engaged in the attack he asked. "You give me all this on warships at Wilhelmshaven. The attack was delivered from food when you have no food your- a few
selves." feet above the docks.
A south-east village baker was These airmon have invariably
usual and shown conspicuous courage and found that
wakened earlier than
a bomb outside the devotion to duty.
shop had blown in his front win-planes, the din of cannon fire, and Sergeant White showed a high. First thing he did was to the rattle of machine-guns. degree of skill, clear thinking and persuade his wife to go to sleep quick judgment as rear gunner of
Two of the raiders crashed, aircraft attacked by three again. Second thing he did was and a third was blown to pieces enemy aircraft over the agro-Scrawl a big notice Don't let Hit by an anti-aircraft shell. drome at Wessel in July. Two of ler spoil your appetite. Bread and cakes as usual" and stuck it in
an
the enemy were sent down out of front of his shop. Then he got on control and the third flew away.
with his usuat day's baking.
LOYAL MEN ONLY WANTED
Home Awards
A squadron leader who, though rescued from' the sea at the point of losing consciousness, was lead- ing his squadron again next day, is one of three men to be award ́ed the D.FICA
He is Squadron-Leader. John Ralph Alexander Peel. In re cent actions he has shot down at feast two enemy 'planes. The Air Ministry also an- nounced awards of the D.F.C.- to
PEER QUITS
Kent County Council, at their meeting at Maidstone will be asked to pass a resolution that any
The Earl of Perth, sixty-three, person employed by the County chief adviser on foreign publicity. Council whose attitude towards to the Ministry of Information the national war effort is in any since the earliest months of the way open, to objection shall, after war, has resigned following re- due investigation, be dismissed as organisation of the Ministry's
higher staff. soon as possible.
two other home pilots: Acting CANADIAN DOCTORS been any other important change.
Flight-Lieutenant John Ellis, and Flying Officer Alastair John Os- wald Jaffrey. *
Flying Officer Jeffrey is now reported missing.
*HELP FOR STAFF
IN THE FORCES
Leiston, Suffolk, Cooperative Society is to nielte a flat rate pay- ment of 55. a week to every mem- bor of the staff serving with the Armed Forces
RALLY
It is believed that there has not
The news of Lord Perth's resigna- tion follows the appointment of Sir Maurice Peterson as Control- Dr. T. C. Routley, general scler of Overseas Publicity of the cretary' of the Canadian Medical Ministry. Association, announced that Cana- dian. physicians have offered, homes to children of more than a thousand British doctors.
He added, says Reuter, that he was "cabling the British Medical Association to this effect.".
200,000 BOYS TO AID WAR
In its report the Committee ex- Two hundred thousand working plains that the decision has been lads who wish to help in the pre- arrived at "in view of the totally sent emergency will be trained in inadequate rate of pay that the fire-fighting or first, ald by the authorities consider sufficient for National Association of Boys men compulsorily called up.
Clubs.
A former secretary-general to the League of Nations, he was ap- pointed to the Ministry on retir- ing from the British Embassy, in Rome, where he was from Octo- ber, 1933, to April, 1839.,
His appointment to the Minis- try caused questions to be asked in Parliament which revealed that his salary was £1,100 and 'his pension - £1,900, a total of £3,000 a year.
His appointment was attacked in the Press and by M.P.s on the ground that his previous record. gave no indication that he was a suitablo man for, the job,
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