WELSFORD G K: Difference between revisions

 

''“It was about 7.30 am on October 20th that five aeroplanes went up from the Squadron to take photographs. They were two or three miles over the German lines, between Arras and Douai, when they were attacked by about 27 Hun aeroplanes, and George’s machine was ahead of all the rest and went straight into the middle of them. A tremendous battle ensued, and George’s machine being the foremost was prettily heavily attacked and four Huns got firing at him directly from behind…..George at once got up on his seat and was busy firing his top gun, when one Hun machine got a gun on him and riddled the pilot, putting about seven or eight shots into his back and smashing up the engine. The pilot was, I think, rendered unconscious, at any rate he lost control of the machine and it turned over and dived, and poor George, who had been standing up on his seat, was seen to go over the top plane and disappear.''”