IN THE AIR.
PLUCKY AVIATORS REWARDED. London, Jan. 1. The Victoria Cross has been awarded to Squadron Commander Bell Davis, and the Distinguished Service Cross to Flight-Lieutenant Smylie. The officers, on November 10, carried out an aircraft raid on Fcrrijk Junction. Smylie, when his machine was damaged, down planed, releasing all his bombs except one. On alighting Smylie set fire to his machine, knowing that the ihomb would destroy it. Suddenly he saw Davis descending close to the burning aeroplane, and, fearing Davis was risking destruction, Smylie ra-n back and exploded the bomb with a pistol bullet at short range. Davis then descended and took up Smylie, despite the near approach of a party of Turks, and returned to an aerodrome. This feat of airmanship has seldom been equalled for skill and gallantry.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19160104.2.40.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1916, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
133IN THE AIR. Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1916, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. 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