FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH
7 BRITISH PILOT’S BRAVE SACRIFICE CRASH ON HOUSES AVOIDED. AT COST OF HIS OWN LIFE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, October 29. It is now known tnat t-iying-Officer Ralph Hope, the 28:yearold nephew of Mr. Neville Chamberlain, whose death was announced a week ago, lost his life in preventing his Hurricane crashing on houses in south-east London. Flying-Officer Hope was losing height and could have saved himself by bailing out.. He stayed at the controls and. according to one witness, seemed deliberately to aim for some allotments. When the Hurricane was going straight down towards this open ground, he bailed out. but his para- < chute did not open in time. The aircraft crashed on an allotment and no ( one was hurt. ;
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 October 1940, Page 6
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