NOBLE SACRIFICE

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 248, 21 October 1942, Page 3

NOBLE SACRIFICE

CRASHED INTO THE SEA. "GAVE LIFE FOR KIDDIES." A story of gallant sacrifice is told of Sergeant-Pilot Warwick A. Clouston, son of Mr and Mrs D. C. Clouston, Ocean View Road, Milford, who was reported killed in June of this1 year. I Writing to Mr and Mrs Clouston, ' a Royal Air Force padre, the Rev. A.i G. Macintyre, who officiated at Sergeant-Pilot Clouston's funerql, \va.s able to tell ho .v the young air- ! man died, after crashing into the sea ! off the English coast. "I found a man who had been standing on the cliff and who saw it all," said the padre. " This man said that Sergeant-Pilot Clouston might have made a landing on the beach, and he began to coine down as if he would. Then he must have noticed the kiddies playing on the sand; and clecided not to risk hitting them, so he turned out to sea and erashed there. I "Although I never knew your son, I from v/hat I have heard of his character that is just what he would do," continued Mr Macintyre. "Many pdlots lose their lives in action against the enemy, in trying to destroy them, and we rightly regard them as noble But your son ;gave hTs life to save the lives of those ' little kiddies on the beach, and I think that is nobler still."