Air-Commodore Samson’s memories, which Ernest Benn will publish, may be called “My War,” because they have so much adventurous personality. The Commodore was the first man to carry out night bombing. He was in France with his squadron in August, 1914, and early in September he was carrying on guerilla warfare with German cyclists and Uhlans. By the end of the month he had armed his flying squad of cars, and they became part of the British line. It happened on one occasion that Commodore Samson found himself in temporary command of 200 French soldiers, a curious position for a British naval officer.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19300531.2.124.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Southland Times, Issue 21097, 31 May 1930, Page 13
Word count
Tapeke kupu
103Untitled Southland Times, Issue 21097, 31 May 1930, Page 13
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Southland Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in