EXCITING EXPERIENCE
RETURN OF AIRMAN WELL KNOWN IN HAMILTON (United Press Assn.— fipp. Tel. CopvrljrM) LONDON, August 1 Although he was reported missing over Belgium in July, Pilot-Officer Derek Ward, of Whangarei. returned to his squadron after a fortnight’s excitement in escaping. Dressed as a Belgian peasant refugee he took 12 days to get back to Dunkirk and return to England by a motor tor-pedo-boat. His name had been removed from the squadron list, and at his family’s request, his car was sold, his bills paid and his bank account closed. The New Zealander who decorated his aircraft with a “coat of arms” of unlucky signs, Pilot-Officer Ward is well known in Hamilton. He was taught to fly at the Waikato airport by Flight-Lieutenant W. H. Lett and secured his pilot's license here, later joining the Royal Ail Force on a short service commission
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19400817.2.42.5
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21194, 17 August 1940, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
144EXCITING EXPERIENCE Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21194, 17 August 1940, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in