JULY 3RD. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.

At 7.15 P.M. a three-engined enemy bomber was attacked by British fighter aeroplanes, north-east of Gourdon. In a few minutes the bomber crashed into the sea.

A light south-west breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. At 7.40 P.M. the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched and found the bomber half a mile off Fowlshaugh Cliffs, six miles north-east of Gourdon. It was nearly submerged and none of the crew could be seen. The life-boat picked up its dinghy, and other oddments of wreckage, and went to Stonehaven to report, returning to her station at 1.40 A.M. the next morning.

- Rewards, £20 11s. 6d..