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Dear Sirs, I read with interest your WW1 Object in last month’s issue. It reminded me that I have a copy of a newspaper cutting that relates to Lieutenant M.D.G. Drummond’s death. It was published in the Northampton Chronicle and Echo on Thursday, 26 March 1925:
‘Captain Malcolm David G. Drummond, late of the Royal Air Force, and one of the most courageous of British air pilots during the war, has died suddenly at the residence of the Baroness de Forest.
‘Captain Drummond, who was 29 years of age, was the son of Commander Malcolm Drummond RN, and a cousin of Captain G.H. Drummond, of Pitsford Hall.
‘Captain Drummond proved to be a veritable hero of heroes. During the war he lost both his legs, his machine being shot down [sic] on the Italian front. He was invalided back to England and dauntlessly tried, even with two artificial legs, to re-join the Air Force. The story is told that when he was rejected he challenged the doctor at Hendon to say which was the artificial leg. The doctor rep…
