AUGUST 14TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.

At 5.30 A.M. news was received from the observer post and the coastguard that a British bomber had come down in the sea between Hythe and Dymchurch. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a smooth sea.

The motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 6.5 A.M., and found that a motor fishing boat had picked up two survivors and was returning to Hythe. The life-boat towed the boat to Hythe, where the men were placed in an ambulance, and returned to her station at 8.50. Another survivor was saved by Miss Peggy Prince in a small canoe and she was awarded the medal of the Order of the British Empire.

The other two members of the aeroplane’s crew were lost. - Rewards, £10 15s. 6d..