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Page contains 6 newspaper clippings. Subjects include: Capt. Bill Megloughlin severely wounded during an air fight; Lieut. H. Burland wins Military Cross; Miss Essie McKerracher overseas with Red Cross; Lieut. D. R. McLean returns home to Ottawa; and price of divorce reduced for soldiers.
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- [start clipping] "BILL" MEGLOUGHLIN IS BADLY BURNED --- Under Wrecked Plane When Bombs Started to Explode. --- 1 photograph Captain "Bill" Megloughlin, transport officer with the 38th Battalion in France, and one of the Capital's most hopeful young men had a remarkable excape from a horrible death recently. During a combat in the air an Allied flyer had succeeded in bringing down a German machine which landed in a badly damaged condition over the 38th transport lines, where Capt. Megloughlin and his men were located. The machine overturned in the descent the Hun airmen having been killed by a bullet in the air. After the machine had landed the Ottawa offcier decided to crawl under the machine to secure the dead aviator's papers. He got safely under the machine to secure the dead aviator's papers. He got safely under the wreckage and was busy searching the dead aviator when the machine caught fire and an explosion followed. Several other explosions took place in quick succession, as the bombs which the machine carried ignited. A number of Captain Megloughlin's transport men were watching the operation quite close to the machine and nearly all were killed or badly wounded when the bombs exploded. Captain Meglaughlin was badly burnd about the face and hands, but is doing nicely in a hospital in England.His escape from death was a miraculous one, only the fact that the machine was upside down saving him from being blown to pieces. Captain Megloughlin is a son of Mr. George H. Megloughlin, 167 Fifth avenue, City. He was prominent in athletic clubs in Ottawa, being a member of the Ottawa Football team and a former all round champion of the Collegiate Institute. A letter received from Captain Megloughlin today by his sister states that he is out of the hospital, and that new skin has formed on the spots where he was burned about the face. The physicians have assured him that there will be no scars. He has been given thirty days' leave. [end clipping] [start clipping] LIEUT. H. BURLAND, M.C., WINS HONOR IN FRANCE --- Word was received Monday afternoon by Mrs. George Hope Burland, 25 Linden Terrace, that her son, Lieut. Harold Burland, aged 21 years, who is serving with the 38th Royal Ottawa Battalion, has been decorated with the Military Cross. Few particulars of the act of bravery for which Lieut. Burland was decorated have yet been received. It is known, however, that it was for part he took in a raid made on April 26 in which he was slightly wounded. Lieut. Dorney Adams, formerly of the Ottawa Free Press, is also mentioned as having taken part in this raid. Lieut. Burland left McGill University to enlist for overseas service with the 38th Battalion. The injury he received in the raid on April 26 was not serious, and in the last letter from hiim, received by his mother, he stated that he was then at a reinforcing station behind the lines. He was only in the hospital a very short time. [end clipping] [start clipping] Lieut. D. R. McLean, Back. Another young Ottawa officer who returned on Saturday is Lieut. Duncan B. McLean, son of Mr. J.D. McLean, 315 Somerset street. Lieut. McLean, like Capt. Black, enlisted in the 21st Battalion in the fall of 1914, but chose to join the ranks rather than wait for a commission, being a member of the latter officer's platoon. He took a course at Kingston, but was not singled out to take a commission until the end of 1916, after he had seen over a year of active service. He went through the fighting at St. Elio and also participated in the taking of Courcellette, being one of the hundred or so who survived out of a full battalion which was thrown in to the fight to take the position regardless of cost. This tattered remnant proceeded then to Lens, from where Lieut. McLean went to England to take the officers training course. Lieut. McLean, after receiving his commission, trained for a number of months at an aviation school, but was unable to complete his training for his pilot's certificate. He returned to his reserve and is now home at the disposal of the Adjutant- General. [end clipping] [start clipping] WITH U.S.RED CROSS. 1 photograph MISS ESSIE McKERRACHER, who left for overseas recently, with Automobile Unit No. 3. American Red Cross, has arrived safely in England. Miss McKerracher is a graduate of the Roosevelt Hospital, New York. The information was received yesterday by her father, Mr. W. J. McKerracher. Miss McKerracher is a well-known Ottawa girl. [end clipping] [start clipping] Capt. Megloughlin, M.C., Is Wounded Again. 1 photograph CAPT. W. MEGLOUGHLIN, M.C. The name of Captain William "Bill" Megloughlin, M.C., appears in the casualty list issued today. This is the second time Captain Megloughlin has been wounded, his name having appeared some time ago as having been severely burned when bombs on an airplane brought down exploded while he was under the plane. He is now in London, his family having received a cable from Captain Megloughlin's (illegible) [end of clipping) Sept. 1918 (annotation in pencil) [start clipping] CHEAPER DIVORCES FOR VETERANS. Divorce is to be made easier for soldiers, that is in so far as cheaper costs can make it easier to get a divorce. Among the principal items of cost in divorce. Among the principal items of cost in divorce proceedings is a $200 fee to the clerk of the Senate. In the case of returned soldiers it is proposed to remit this with certain other money-eating incidentals. [end clipping]
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