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WIFE OF AIR VICE-MARSHAL D’ALBIAC. TRAPPED IN TORPEDOED SHIP. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, June 15. Mrs. J. H. D’Albiac, wife of Air ViceMarshal D'Albiac, chief of Britain’s new Tactical Air Force, arrived after her ship, while en route from West Africa, was torpedoed and sunk. Captain Andrews, master of the lost ship, rescued Mrs. D’Albiac when she was trapped under debris after a torpedo hit. The captain noticed when the lifeboat was clear of the ship that Mrs. D’Albiac was not'present. Fie returned aboard the stricken ship and, though the torpedo had put out the lights, found her and carried her unconscious to the boat. The captain said that Mrs. D’Albiac insisted on taking her turn at rowing with the men. The survivors in the lifeboat reached the Canary Islands.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1943, Page 2
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