YOUNG AIRMAN’S DEATH
■DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CUT SHORT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. The death as a result of an aircraft accident on July 22 of 'Piloi-Oflicei John Lawrence Bickerdike, the onl; sen of Senior-Sergeant J. Bickerdike, of Christchurch, is announced by the Air Ministry. Only 21 years of age Bickerdike had been in the thick of the lighting over the English Channel flying a fighter in a squadron which, according to one of his recent letters home, had one of the highest records of enemy machines brought down of any fighter squadron in the Royal Air Force. Pilot-Officer Bickerdike was educated at King’s Preparatory School and King's College, Auckland, where he had an outstanding athletic career. When only eighteen, he established a new Dominion record for putting the shot and held several Auckland athletic championships, as well, as the senior athletic championship of King's College. _____________
“Why. Jimmy, you poor dear! Have you been fighting?'’ “No, Ive been fought.” ...
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 6
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159YOUNG AIRMAN’S DEATH Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 6
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