Wife of Island owner injures leg

The condition of Mrs Kathleen Harman, wife of Mr Albion Harman, owner of Lundy, who injured her leg in a fall on the island and on Monday evening was flown from there by a rescue helicopter of RAF Chivenor to the King George V football field and taken by ambulance to Bideford Hospital, was yesterday stated to be progressing satisfactorily.

The rescue helicopter, piloted by Flight Lieutenant A G Carroll, was called in response to a message from Lundy received by Hartland coastguards over the radio transmitter from the island. It touched down at Bideford to pick up Dr William Ruddock, of Bideford, and landed on a strip behind Lundy Church to which Mrs Harman was brought by trailer towed by a tractor.

This was the second time within a week the rescue helicopter service from RAF Chivenor had gone to Lundy in response to a call for medical assistance. Last week it took Dr W T S McKean, Dr Ruddock’s partner.

Full Gazette article is dated 25 April 1958