The War Illustrated, Volume 5, No. 103, Page 71, August 22, 1941.

Sgt. James Allen Ward, the 22-year-old New Zealander who won the 7th V.C. awarded to the R.A.F. in this war. He received the award for putting out a fire aboard an aeroplane returning from a raid over Munster. When crossing the Zuyder Zee his aircraft was attacked by a Messerschmitt 110, and fire broke out near the starboard engine. Sgt. Ward climbed through the narrow astro-hatch, and, breaking the fabric to make hand- and footholds where necessary, he descended three feet to the wing and proceeded to a position behind the engine. In great danger of being blown off the aircraft Sgt. Ward smothered the flames in the wing and endeavoured to push an engine-cover which had been used as a cushion through a hold in the wing on to a leaking pipe where the fire originated. The peril was averted, the flight home was made possible by his great courage, and the damaged plane was landed.

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Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Eric C. T. Wilson

Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Eric C. T. Wilson, the East Surrey Regiment, attached Somaliland Camel Corps, was awarded the V.C. on Oct. 12, 1940, for conspicuous gallantry in Somaliland. The official a

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