A BRILLIANT AVIATOR
a KILLED AT DARTFORD J HIS REMARKABLE CAREER Br Telegraph—: Press. AssociatioH-rOop;y-risM • i (Rcc. 'August 29, 2 p.m.) London, August 28. His Majesty tho King sent a message * of sympathy ilic mother of Captain i G. Mapplebeck, the aviator, who .was ' killed at Dartford on Tuesday, on the. eve. of his twenty-third" birthday, while testing a new. machine. Ho was tho youngest flight commander and one of tlic first batch, sent to Flanders, and; tho first to reconnoitre the enemy's lines, sndthe first to drop bombs. He reconnoitred throughout the Mons retreat; he was sliot in <1 duel at, the end of September while up six thou-. •" sand feot, landed unconscious, and was ; in hospital for three months., He. was shot down at Lille in March during tha first "night raid of the war, and ' hid t amongst the Germans for days;. and escaped with a peasant's aid, despite a proclamation offering a reward for his " capture, and death for anyone < found ? harbouring'him. He reached Holland in tlie peasant's disguise after three weeks, . j and. immediately returned to tho front. m Latterly he commanded the squadron . guarding London.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2553, 30 August 1915, Page 6
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191A BRILLIANT AVIATOR Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2553, 30 August 1915, Page 6
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