1915 in the RNAS he flew
When a Zeppelin came into view
In the skies over Ghent
So in hot pursuit he went
Taking heavy machine gun fire
Warneford quickly climbed higher
To take up position over head
Where soon the sky turned red
Where the bombs he dropped
Saw the Zeppelin stopped
Exploding in a ball of fire
Blowing Warneford up higher
Overturning the attacking plane
Stopping its engine,which wouldn’t start again
So he had to land on enemy soil
And in the darkness quickly toil
To restart the engins and get on his way
So he could fight another day
Flt Lt Reginald Alexander John Warneford VC
(15 October 1891 – 17 June 1915)
Comments
Highhat | August 14, 2011 - 09:55
Oh deary me- War! and the young lost their lives.
Biggus | August 14, 2011 - 11:02
Indeed, but they were very brave to go up in the air in those Heath Robinson machines.
More than half the deaths to pilots and observers were cause by failures to the airplanes.