The Archive · 1940

Rugger Star Wins D.S.0

Among R.A.F. honours just announced is a D.S.O. for Wing-Commander Francis Victor Beamish, one of the three Irish rugby-playing bro-the:

who are all in the R.A.F. He planes that shot down six Messer-schmidt 109's bagging two himself; helped to destroy a Messerschmitt 110 and shot down a Dornier 17. His brother Charles won the D.F.C. in May.

Mr. Thomas Arundale Bourn, former amateur English golf champion, who is now in the Army, has been granted a decree nisi in the Divorce Court, Last 4 Shows, 2.30, 5, 7, 3.15

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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