GALLANT AIRMAN
AUSTRALIAN AWARDED THE D.F.C. LOW-FLYING NIGHT ATTACK AT WILHELMSHAVEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 10. Pilot-Officer Alexander Herbert Gould has been awarded the D.F.C. The citation states that he piloted a plane detailed to carry out a very low altitude night attack on warships in Wilhelmshaven Harbour in July, in face of a terrific barrage of antiaircraft fire. On many previous occasions Pilot-Officer Gould had shown conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He always pressed home his attacks in the same fearless manner. His father lives at Kiami, Australia.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1940, Page 6
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