Flying Officer Killed in Collision Between Two Machines London, Feb. 18.
When flying over the cliffs near Capel, between Folkestone and. Dover this afternoon, two Air Force height of 2, The machines which wore single-seater "Grebes," belonged to the 25th Squadron at Hawkings and were piloted by Flying Officer Welsh and Flying Officer Watson, Flying Officer Watson was picked up badly injured and died.
Flying Officer Welsh dropped by parachute from his machine when about 1,000 feet up, He was car. ried for nearly two miles by paras chute before falling on some telok graph wires on the Folkestono-Dover main road. The fall broke the wires but the airman escaped injury.—Reuter.
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