LIEUT. A. DE B. BRANDON, D.S.O.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2895, 6 October 1916, Page 6

LIEUT. A. DE B. BRANDON, D.S.O.

ANOTHER ZEPPELIN EXPLOIT

TWO AIRMEN HONOURED

Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, October i. .Pilots Frederick Sowrey and Alfred de Bathe Brandon (of Now Zealand) have been awarded Distinguished Service Orders for gallantry "in attacking Zeppelins on September "23. After a spirited chase and a dingdong battle, Sowrey and Brandon manoeuvred for positiou. Sowrey had tho better luck, and his shots struck ttie Zeppelin, which fell ablaze. Brandon stood by in case of emergency. Later ho attacked the raider which surrendered.

' [Twelve or thirteen Zeppelins visited the Midland Counties on September 23. Tho Zeppelins were brought down in Essex. One was completely destroyed, and the other, with its crew, was reported to have boon captured intact. •Lieutenant Alfred do Bathe Brandon, who brought a Zeppelin down in March last, is a son of Mr. A. de B. Brandon, of Wellington. He is thirty-two years of age, and went Home last year for this purpose of entering tho Aviation Corps. Ho attended the Flying Scliool at Hendon, and tho Military School at Harrow, and received his commission in tho Royal Flying Corps later. Ho is a Wellington College boy, and later attended Cambridge University.]

RUSSIAN PRINCESS AND GERMAN PRINCE

■ MARRIAGE OFFICIALLY DISSOLVED. • CEoutcr's Telegram.) (Ilec. October 5, 5.35 p.m.) Petrograd, October 4. _ The Tsar has confirmed the dissolution; pronounced by the Holy Synod, of the marriago 'of his sister, tho Grand Duchess Olga, to Prince Peter of Qhleuburg (a German). [The marriage took place in 1901. Tho Grand Duchy of Oldenburg is one of the States of tho German Confederation.] '