MARCH 25TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

At 1.42 A.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat station that an explosion, apparently from an aeroplane which had crashed into the sea, had been heard at a coast-watching post at Garmouth, and the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched at 2 A.M. A strong N.N.W. breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough. At 3.30 A.M. the life-boat found a dead airman tied to a float. She brought the body and the float ashore. At daybreak she put out again, found the wreckage of the aeroplane and brought in parts for identification, returning to her station at 9.50 A.M.- Rewards, £11 19s. 6d..