In the Air
PILOTS HONOURED. A SPIRITED CHASE. WELLINGTON MAPI’S FINE / WORK. (Received 1.35 p.m.) London, October 4. Air pilots Frederick Sowrey and Alfred Brandon have been awarded Distiguished Service Orders for gallantry in attacking Zeppelins. On the twenty-third of September, after a spirited chase had a ding-dong battle with the enemy. Sowrey and Brandon manoeuvred for position, and Sowrey had the better luck. His shots struck the Zeppelin which fell ablaze, Brandon stood by m case of emergency, and the latter attacked a raidiV which surrendered.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 58, 5 October 1916, Page 6
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87In the Air Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 58, 5 October 1916, Page 6
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