Etc. -- Lieut. (Dr.) Harry Sutton's 1918 smash
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A lightly edited transcript of a page 7 article from the 28 Nov 1918 issue of the Simcoe Reformer.

Mrs. Harry Pursel returned on Sunday from a visit to Toronto, whence she brings details of the smash sustained last Wednesday by her brother, Lieut. (Dr.) Harry Sutton, when his machine fell from a height of 1,500 feet.

He and a friend had been performing the usual aerial stunts for half an hour before breakfast in separate machines. 

In one of those evolutions the machine used by Lieut. Sutton "skidded" and that was the last that he remembers.

When he was picked up he was bruised from head to foot, but no bones were broken.

His friends here will be glad to learn that he escaped so fortunately as he did.


 

 
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