AIR RESCUE WORK
OFFICER GETS DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS. CONTINUED AND ZEALOUS SERVICE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, February 17. A R.A.F. officer, who has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, received his decoration from the King at an investiture in Buckingham Palace recently. He is Flight Lieutenant R. F. L. Coates, officer commanding the R.A.F. high-speed launch base at Dover. He has been decorated for continued and zealous service during the seven months he has been in command' of the R.A.F. sea rescue launches. During that time the R.A.F. high-speed launches at Dover, and the Navy, acting in close co-operation, have rescued a large number of pilots and air crews, both Allied and enemy. It has frequently been necessary for the rescue craft to brave dangers of minefields and enemy surface vessels and aircraft in their task.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1942, Page 3
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141AIR RESCUE WORK Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1942, Page 3
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