Thrilling Wartime Experience of English Cricket Captain
HAROLD GILLIGAN. the smiling captain of the M.C.C. team which will be in New Zealand very soon, had some thrilling experiences during the war. but none more so than when his plane was hit by German gunners when he and a companion were flying over the German Fleet in the Kiel Canal. With a damaged radiator, the two Englishmen took a long chance of getting back to Englard or. failing that, of landing in Holland, but their luck was out, and they came down in the Channel. For 20 minutes they were swimming about in the water until a companion plane arrived, and they were taken aboard. More bad luck followed. The extra weight prevented the plane from taking off. To make matters worse, a wing broke. For three days and nights they drifted about at the mercy of the waves. They were saved by a carrier pigeon. Four were sent off. Three were never heard of again, but , the fourth dropoed dead with its message at the feet of a Yarmouth coastguardsmar*. The four mer were just about “aM in’* when they were rescued
intrepid Erglishi
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 827, 22 November 1929, Page 7
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194Thrilling Wartime Experience of English Cricket Captain Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 827, 22 November 1929, Page 7
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