‘A Short Life in the Sky’: the story of a WWI pilot
Posthumous Award  
(NRS reference: GD486/194/3)

Transcript:

LONDON GAZETTE, 17 MAY, 1918.
HONOURS FOR THE ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE.
The KING has been graciously pleased to
approve of the award of the following
(i) For services in Mesopotamia:-
To receive the Distinguished Service Cross:-
Flt. Sub-Lieut. John Douglas Hume,
R.N.A.S. (since killed).
For continuous good patrol work, artillery
spotting, feeding Kut-el-Amara, etc., some-
times making three trips a day under all
weather conditions. He invariably dis-
played great coolness and resource in the face
of the enemy, regardless of personal danger.