List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Royal Aero Club in 1913
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The Royal Aero Club
issued Aviators Certificates from 1910.
These were internationally recognised under the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
Legend
Individual was killed in an aviation accident.
Individual was killed flying in military action.
Royal Aero Club
The Royal Aero Club is the national co-ordinating body for Air Sport in the United Kingdom.The Aero Club was founded in 1901 by Frank Hedges Butler, his daughter Vera and the Hon Charles Rolls , partly inspired by the Aero Club of France...
issued Aviators Certificates from 1910.
These were internationally recognised under the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
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List
Aviator's Certificates awarded | ||||
in 1910 (1–38) |
in 1911 (39–168) |
in 1912 (169–382) |
in 1913 (383–719) |
in 1914 (720–1032) |
Legend
Individual was killed in an aviation accident.
Individual was killed flying in military action.
No. | |Name | |Date | |Comment |
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383 | Lt. Lieutenant A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank... Georges Negresco |
7 January 1913 | Romanian, Bristol Monoplane at the Bristol School, Salisbury Plain. |
384 | Walter Featherstone | 7 January 1913 | Bristol Monoplane at the Bristol School, Salisbury Plain. |
385 | Lt. George Eardley Todd Welsh Regiment | 7 January 1913 | Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands. |
386 | Lt. Gilbert W. Mapplebeck King's Regiment | 7 January 1913 | Took part in the first R.F.C. reconnaissance Reconnaissance Reconnaissance is the military term for exploring beyond the area occupied by friendly forces to gain information about enemy forces or features of the environment.... flight of World War I World War I World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918... from Maubeuge, Belgium on 19 August 1914. Philip Joubert de la Ferté Philip Joubert de la Ferté Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Bennet Joubert de la Ferté KCB, CMG, DSO was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the 1930s and the Second World War.-RAF career:... in a Bleriot of No. 3 Squadron RFC and Lt GW Mapplebeck in a BE2 Be2 The online matchmaking company be2 is one of the leading matchmakers worldwide. Internationally, be2 is represented in 37 countries..-History:... of No. 4 Squadron RFC. |
387 | Lt. John (Jack) Empson 4th Royal Fusiliers | 7 January 1913 | Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands, died 15 May 1914 |
388 | Arthur Ewing, R.N. | 7 January 1913 | Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands |
389 | Capt. David Watson Powell Northamptonshire Regiment Northamptonshire Regiment The Northamptonshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1960. Its lineage is now continued by The Royal Anglian Regiment.-Formation:The regiment was formed as part of the reorganisation of the infantry by the Childers reforms... |
7 January 1913 | Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands |
390 | Gordon Noel Humphreys | 7 January 1913 | Caudron Biplane at Brooklands, later served with the Royal Flying Corps |
391 | Lt. A. B. Thompson East Lancashire Regiment East Lancashire Regiment The East Lancashire Regiment was, from 1881 to 1958, an infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of two 30th and 59th Regiments of Foot with the militia and rifle volunteer units of eastern Lancashire... |
7 January 1913 | - |
392 | Lt. Lionel W. B. Rees Lionel Rees Group Captain Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees VC OBE MC AFC RAF was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces... , R.G.A. |
7 January 1913 | Rees was later awarded the Victoria Cross Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories.... flying the De Havilland DH.2. |
393 | Engine Room Artificer Sidney T. Freeman R.N. | 21 January 1913 | - |
394 | Leading Seaman Bernard John William Brady, R.N. | 21 January 1913 | - |
395 | Leading Seaman Arthur John Bateman R.N. | 21 January 1913 | - |
396 | Sub.-Lt. Arthur Wellesley Bigsworth Arthur Bigsworth Air Commodore Arthur Wellesley Bigsworth CMG,DSO and bar, AFC, was a pioneer aviator who had a distinguished military career in the service of the British armed forces.-Early life:... , R.N.R. |
21 January 1913 | Awarded the D.S.O. for an attack on a Zeppelin on 17 May 1915 and a bar Medal bar A medal bar or medal clasp is a thin metal bar attached to the ribbon of a military decoration, civil decoration, or other medal. It is most commonly used to indicate the campaign or operation the recipient received the award for, and multiple bars on the same medal are used to indicate that the... to his D.S.O. on 19 September 1915 "for his services in destroying singlehanded a German submarine on the morning of August 26th, 1915, by bombs dropped from an aeroplane." He was also mentioned in despatches. Some claim that Bigsworth inspired W. E. Johns W. E. Johns William Earl Johns was an English pilot and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the name Captain W. E. Johns. He is best remembered as the creator of the ace pilot and adventurer Biggles.-Early life:... ' character 'Bigglesworth' (Biggles Biggles "Biggles" , a pilot and adventurer, is the title character and main hero of the Biggles series of youth-oriented adventure books written by W. E. Johns.... ). |
397 | Lt F W Bowhill Frederick Bowhill Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick William Bowhill, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO & Bar was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force before and during World War II.-RAF career:... RN |
21 January 1913 | Later air chief marshal Air Chief Marshal Air chief marshal is a senior 4-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force... . |
398 | Lt. A. C. G. Brown, R.N. | 21 January 1913 | - |
399 | Lt. Alexander Shekleton Royal Munster Fusiliers Royal Munster Fusiliers The Royal Munster Fusiliers was a regular infantry regiment of the British Army. One of eight Irish regiments raised largely in Ireland, it had its home depot in Tralee. It was originally formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of two regiments of the former East India Company. It served in India and... |
21 January 1913 | - |
400 | Capt. Gilbert Braithwaite Rickards (late Royal Munster Fusiliers) | 21 January 1913 | - |
401 | Henry Elliot William Macandrew | 21 January 1913 | - |
402 | Assistant-Paymaster John Henry Lidderdale, R.N. | 21 January 1913 | - |
403 | Sub.-Lt. Reginald Lennox George Marix, R.N.V.R. Royal Naval Reserve The Royal Naval Reserve is the volunteer reserve force of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. The present Royal Naval Reserve was formed in 1958 by merging the original Royal Naval Reserve and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , a reserve of civilian volunteers founded in 1903... |
21 January 1913 | - |
404 | Lt. If. D. Vernon, R.N. | 21 January 1913 | - |
405 | Sub. Lt. H. A. Littleton, R.N.V.R. | 21 January 1913 | - |
406 | A. L. Russell | 21 January 1913 | - |
407 | E. R. Whitehouse | 21 January 1913 | - |
408 | Lt. J. T. Babington, R.N. | 21 January 1913 | - |
409 | Horace A. Buss | 4 February 1913 | - |
410 | Montague F. Glew | 4 February 1913 | - |
411 | Hubert Scott | 4 February 1913 | - |
412 | Air Mechanic Reginald Collis | 4 February 1913 | - |
413 | Christopher Nevile | 4 February 1913 | - |
414 | Capt. E. G. R. Lithgow, R.A.M.C. | 4 February 1913 | - |
415 | Assistant Paymaster E. B. Parker, R.N. | 18 February 1913 | - |
416 | Lt. M. W. Noel | 18 February 1913 | - |
417 | 2nd-Lt. R. M. Vaughan Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was a Irish infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 27th Regiment of Foot and the 108th Regiment of Foot... |
18 February 1913 | - |
418 | H. T. G. Lane | 18 February 1913 | - |
419 | F. F. R. Minchin | 18 February 1913 | - |
420 | J. Crawford Kehrmann | 18 February 1913 | - |
421 | Capt. William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond Geoffrey Salmond Air Chief Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond KCB, KCMG, DSO , commonly known as Sir Geoffrey Salmond, was a senior commander in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. Remaining in the Royal Air Force after the War, he held senior appointments in the Middle East, Great Britain and India... , R.F.A. |
18 February 1913 | - |
422 | Lt. R. P. Ross, R.N. | 18 February 1913 | - |
423 | Lt. James Robert Branch Kennedy, R.N. | 18 February 1913 | Died on 13 June 1913, as passenger of C. Gordon Bell, at Brooklands in a Martinsyde monoplane. |
424 | George Lee Temple | 18 February 1913 | Died when he crashed in a Blériot monoplane at Hendon on 25 January 1914. The Royal Aero Club Royal Aero Club The Royal Aero Club is the national co-ordinating body for Air Sport in the United Kingdom.The Aero Club was founded in 1901 by Frank Hedges Butler, his daughter Vera and the Hon Charles Rolls , partly inspired by the Aero Club of France... 's Accident Investigation Committee's Report N. 19 stated that "the condition of the pilot's health, as disclosed by the medical evidence, coupled with the fact of the gradual turning over of the aircraft in its descent to the ground, point to the pilot having lost consciousness just before or at the commencement of the dive, and that this loss of consciousness and control was the cause of the accident." |
425 | Lt. D. A. Oliver, R.N. | 18 February 1913 | - |
426 | Lt. Thomas Scholes Creswell, R.M.L.I. | 18 February 1913 | Lt. Creswell died, together with his passenger, Commander Rice, near Calshot Calshot Calshot is a coastal village in Hampshire, England at the west corner of Southampton_Water where it joins the Solent. A settlement at the site is believed to have existed since the fifth century AD... when his seaplane (RNAS Serial-no. 128) entered a dive from which he was unable to recover, hitting the water vertically at high speed. A witness, C. Gordon Bell, attested to the fact that the left wing started to break up before the aircraft hit the water. A verdict of 'accidental death from drowning' was recorded. |
427 | Lt. L. L. MacLean Gurkha Rifles Gurkha Rifles Gurkha Rifles may refer to any of a number of regiments of Gurkhas:* 1st King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles * 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles * 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles... |
18 February 1913 | - |
428 | Jules Teulade-Cabanes | 18 February 1913 | - |
429 | Lt. R. G. D. Small Leinster Regiment | 18 February 1913 | - |
430 | Julian B. Hall | 18 February 1913 | - |
431 | Lt. C. F. Lee King's Royal Rifles | 18 February 1913 | - |
432 | Percy Maxwell Muller | 18 February 1913 | - |
433 | Wallace Prowse Hodgson | 18 February 1913 | - |
434 | 2nd Lt. R. A. Archer, R.F.A. | 4 March 1913 | - |
435 | 2nd Lt. Lanoe Hawker Lanoe Hawker Lanoe George Hawker VC, DSO was a British flying ace, with seven credited victories, during the First World War. He was the first British flying ace, and the third pilot to receive the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded... , R.E. Royal Engineers The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers , and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army.... |
4 March 1913 | Awarded Victoria Cross for engaging three German aircraft on 25 July 1915. Killed in dogfight with Manfred von Richthofen Manfred von Richthofen Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen , also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service during World War I... on 23 November 1916. |
436 | 2nd Lt. D. J. McMullen, R.E. | 4 March 1913 | - |
437 | Lt. C E H Rathborne R.M.L.I. | 4 March 1913 | Later air commodore Air Commodore Air commodore is an air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force... |
438 | Sgt. William George Stafford | 18 March 1913 | - |
439 | Sgt. Edward J. Street | 18 March 1913 | - |
440 | Lt. Llewelyn C. Hordern | 18 March 1913 | - |
441 | 2nd Lt. Charles G. G. Bayly, R.E. | 18 March 1913 | - |
442 | Eardley H. Lawford | 18 March 1913 | - |
443 | Sgt. H. E. Vagg | 18 March 1913 | - |
444 | Sgt. Joseph Kemper | 1 April 1913 | - |
445 | 1st Class Air Mechanic J. C. McNamara | 1 April 1913 | - |
446 | Leading Seaman Philip Ephraim Bateman, R..N. | 1 April 1913 | - |
447 | Lt. Raymond Fitzmaurice, R.N. | 1 April 1913 | - |
448 | Lt. W, F. Robertson Dobie | 1 April 1913 | - |
449 | Lt. Neville Usborne, R.F.C. | 1 April 1913 | - |
450 | Lt. Guy Blatherwick, R.N. | 1 April 1913 | - |
451 | Lt. Willrid Picton-Warlow | 1 April 1913 | - |
452 | Arthur B. Ashford Thomson | 1 April 1913 | - |
453 | Engine Room Artificer Herbert Hackney, R.N. | 31 March 1913 | - |
454 | Capt. G. W. Vivian, R.N. | 31 March 1913 | - |
455 | Leading Seaman G. R. Athlon | 1 April 1913 | - |
456 | Sgt. H. C. Wright, R.F.C. | 1 April 1913 | - |
457 | Lt. T. W. Mulcahy-Morgim, Royal Irish Fusiliers | 12 April 1913 | - |
458 | J. H. A. Landon | 12 April 1913 | - |
459 | J. H. G. Torr | 17 April 1913 | - |
460 | Sub-Lt. R. E. C. Peirse Richard Peirse Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Edmund Charles Peirse KCB DSO AFC , was a senior Royal Air Force commander.-RAF career:... , R.N.V.R. |
22 April 1913 | Later air chief marshal Air Chief Marshal Air chief marshal is a senior 4-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force... . |
461 | 2nd Lt. V. Waterfall, East Yorks Regt. | 22 April 1913 | - |
462 | Richard Norton Wight | 22 April 1913 | R.N.Wight, flying an Avro Tractor Biplane for the first time, crashed following a side-slip while doing a circuit at Shoreham Shoreham Shoreham is the name of several different places:* Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, UK** Shoreham 1974–1997** New Shoreham 1295–1885* Shoreham, Kent, UK* Shoreham, Michigan, USA... Aerodrome. Wight survived the crash but was unable to free himself from the wreckage before the fuel from the ruptured fuel tank caught fire; those on the scene pulled him free, but he subsequently died "from the effects of the fire". |
463 | 2nd Lt. W. R. Read, K.D.G. | 12 Apr 1913 | - |
464 | Sgt. Harold Victor Robbins | 22 April 1913 | - |
465 | Shipwright D. Shaw, R.N. | 23 April 1913 | - |
466 | H. C. Tower | 23 April 1913 | - |
467 | Sgt. William Robert Bruce | 23 April 1913 | - |
468 | Com. Francis Rowland Scarlett Francis Rowland Scarlett Air Vice Marshal Francis Rowland Scarlett CB, DSO, RAF was a senior Royal Air Force commander.-Military career:Scarlett joined the Royal Navy in 1891 and in April 1913 he attended the Central Flying School, being awarded his Aviator's Certificate no. 468 on 4 April 1913... , R.N. |
24 April 1913 | First commandant of the RAF's No. 1 School of Technical Training No. 1 School of Technical Training No.1 School of Technical Training is the Royal Air Force's aircraft engineering school, based at RAF Halton from 1919 to 1993, as the Home of the Aircraft Apprentice scheme... |
469 | Lt. Francis John Leslie Cogan, R.F.A. | 30 April 1913 | - |
470 | 2nd Lt. Roger Marshall, R.F.A. (Reserve) | 30 April 1913 | - |
471 | 2nd Lt. Montagu Reaney Chidson, R.G.A. | 30 April 1913 | - |
472 | 2nd Lt. Cyril Cordon Hosking, R.F.A. | 30 April 1913 | - |
473 | Harry Stewart | 30 April 1913 | - |
474 | Thomas Alfred Rainey | 30 May 1913 | - |
475 | Sgt. Sergeant Sergeant is a rank used in some form by most militaries, police forces, and other uniformed organizations around the world. Its origins are the Latin serviens, "one who serves", through the French term Sergent.... John Mead, |
30 May 1913 | - |
476 | Laurance Hugh Strain | 30 May 1913 | - |
477 | Frank George Andreae | 5 May 1913 | - |
478 | Major Neville John Gordon Cameron (Cameron Highlanders) | 6 May 1913 | - |
479 | Lt. Ulick John Deane Bourke (52nd Light Infantry) | 9 May 1913 | - |
480 | John George Barron | 10 May 1913 | - |
481 | Lt. Francis George Brodribb, R.N. | 13 May 1913 | Died in 1958 after being trapped in a machine in his laundry. |
482 | Robert Arthur King | 16 May 1913 | - |
483 | Lt. William Gore Sutherland Mitchell William Mitchell (RAF officer) Air Chief Marshal Sir William Gore Sutherland Mitchell, KCB, CBE, DSO, MC, AFC was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force and the first RAF officer to hold the post of Black Rod.-RAF career:... (1st Highland Light Infantry) |
17 May 1913 | Became Air Chief Marshal Air Chief Marshal Air chief marshal is a senior 4-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force... and was the first RAF officer to hold the post of Black Rod Black Rod The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, generally shortened to just Black Rod, is an official in the parliaments of several Commonwealth countries. The position originates in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom... . |
484 | Major George Charleton Merrick, R.G.A. | 17 May 1913 | Major Merrick was flying a Short Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon, on 3 October 1913. When at a height of about 300 ft. he was observed to be descending at a very steep angle. Shortly after this, he fell out and was killed. The aircraft turned on its back and landed gently. Accident Report No. 18 considered that the accident was "due primarily to the pilot forcing the aircraft down at too steep an angle, resulting in his falling forward on his control and accentuating the steepness of the descent." It also drew attention to the fact that the pilot was not strapped in and thought it was "quite possible that, in this particular instance, had he been so, the accident might have been averted." |
485 | Rene Louis Desoutter | 19 May 1913 | Brother of Marcel Desoutter Marcel Desoutter André Marcel Desoutter was an English aviator, who lost a leg in an early flying accident, but went on to a successful career in the aviation industry.-Early life:... |
486 | Lt. Greville Edward Gordon McClellan Worcestershire Regiment Worcestershire Regiment The Worcestershire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 29th Regiment of Foot and the 36th Regiment of Foot.... |
20 May 1913 | - |
487 | Manuel Zubiaga | 20 May 1913 | - |
488 | Tone Hippolyte Bayetto | 22 May 1913 | (1892-1918) Bleriot Monoplane at the Grahame-White School, Hendon. An engineer who later joined the Royal Flying Corps as a Sergeant pilot, commisioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1916. Injured when his Sopwith Pup shot down by enemy aircraft and badly injured returned to England in 1917. Back on flying duties he was killed on 28 July 1918 when the wings of his Sopwith Dolphin E4449 folded back and it dived into the ground from 200 feet. |
489 | Shipwright Charles Victor Lacey, R.N. | 23 May 1913 | - |
490 | Staff-Surgeon Hardy Vesey Wells, R.N. | 24 May 1913 | - |
491 | Richard Orr Paterson | 24 May 1913 | - |
492 | Lt. Paul Augustine Broder 5th Worcestershire Regiment | 26 May 1913 | - |
493 | Pierre Gandillon | 26 May 1913 | - |
494 | Lt. William Charles Hicks, R.N. | 27 May 1913 | - |
495 | Lt. Gordon Adams (South Lancashire Regt.) | 29 May 1913 | - |
496 | 2nd Lt. A. A. Allen Knight (Royal Munster Fusiliers) | 29 May 1913 | - |
497 | Capt. Francis Stuart Wilson, R.M. | 29 May 1913 | - |
498 | Lt. Ambrose Gratton Power (Royal Munster Fusiliers) | 2 June 1913 | - |
499 | Lt. Malcolm Wallace Duncan, R.A. | 2 June 1913 | - |
500 | Assistant-Paymaster Charles Robert Finch Noyes, R.N. | 29 May 1913 | - |
501 | Lt. H. D. Harvey-Kelly (Royal Irish Regt.) | 30 May 1913 | - |
502 | Naval Shipwright George Thomas Harvey Pack | 2 June 1913 | - |
503 | Lt. Arthur Bruce Gaskell, R.N. | 2 June 1913 | - |
504 | Reginald Hugh Carr | 2 June 1913 | - |
505 | Lt. William George Sitwell, R.N. | 3 June 1913 | - |
506 | Frank Widenham Goodden Frank Goodden Major Frank Widenham Goodden was the chief test pilot for the Royal Aircraft Factory located at Farnborough, Hants., Great Britain, a position to which he was appointed by 1915.... |
3 June 1913 | (1889-1917) Major in the Royal Flying Corps, died testing a prototype Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 The Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 was a British biplane fighter aircraft of the First World War. Although the first examples reached the Western Front before the Sopwith Camel and it had a much better overall performance, problems with its Hispano-Suiza engine, particularly the geared-output H-S... at Farnbrough on 28 January 1917. |
507 | Frank Hudson | 3 June 1913 | - |
508 | Capt. George Marshall Griffith, R.G.A. | 3 June 1913 | - |
509 | Capt. Henry Fawcett, R.M.L.I. | 3 June 1913 | - |
510 | Eric Bentley Bauman | 3 June 1913 | - |
511 | Joseph Raymond de Laplane | 12 June 1913 | - |
512 | Sub-Lt. Douglas Claude Strathearn Evill Douglas Evill Air Chief Marshal Sir Douglas Claude Strathern Evill, GBE, KCB, DSC, AFC, RAF was a Royal Naval Air Service pilot during World War I and senior commander in the Royal Air Force during World War II.-Early life:... , R.N. |
13 June 1913 | - |
513 | George Lancelot Gipps | 13 June 1913 | G.L.Gipps was being instructed by Frederick Warren Merriam at Brooklands when the aircraft, which was fitted with dual controls, "suddenly banked steeply and, making a quarter-turn, nose dived to the ground from a height of about 50 ft.", killing Gipps and injuring Merriam. Merriam stated at the enquiry that he was "under the impression that |
514 | Francis Percy Adams | 13 June 1913 | - |
515 | William Birchenough | 13 June 1913 | - |
516 | Lt. Ronald Burns (Australian Commonwealth Military Forces) | 13 June 1913 | - |
517 | 2nd Lt. Charles Francis Beevor (18th (O.M.O.) Hussars) | 13 June 1913 | - |
518 | Lt. Edward Overend Priestley, R.N. | 14 June 1913 | - |
519 | Sgt.-Maj. Albert Fletcher | 1 July 1913 | Later Air Commodore Air Commodore Air commodore is an air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force... in the RAF |
520 | Sgt.-Maj. Arthur Harold Measures | 16 June 1913 | - |
521 | Lt. George Hugh Vaus Hathorn, R.M.L.I. | 16 June 1913 | - |
522 | Sgt. Charles Mullen | 16 June 1913 | - |
523 | 2nd Lt. Reginald Charles Hope Bewes | 17 June 1913 | - |
524 | Sgt. Charles Edward Jarvis | 17 June 1913 | - |
525 | Major William Sefton Brancker Sefton Brancker Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker KCB AFC , commonly known as Sir Sefton Brancker, was a pioneer in British civil and military aviation.-Early life:... , R.F.A. |
18 June 1913 | Became an Air Vice-Marshal in the Royal Air Force and Director of Civil Aviation. Died in the crash of the R101 R101 R101 was one of a pair of British rigid airship completed in 1929 as part of a British government programme to develop civil airships capable of service on long-distance routes within the British Empire. It was designed and built by an Air Ministry-appointed team and was effectively in competition... airship in France on 5 October 1930. |
526 | Edwin Prosser | 18 June 1913 | - |
527 | 2nd Lt. Mervyn Noott | 20 June 1913 | - |
528 | Capt. Andre Popovici (Roumanian Subject) | 21 June 1913 | - |
529 | Lt. C. E. Maude, R.N. | 26 June 1913 | - |
530 | Capt. Henry Hammond Shott, D.S.O. | 30 June 1913 | - |
531 | 2nd Lt. Arthur Victor Newton (Special Reserve) | 30 June 1913 | - |
532 | Lt.-Col. Alexander Beamish Hamilton | 30 June 1913 | - |
533 | Lt. Augustus Willington Shelton Agar, R.N. | 25 June 1913 | - |
534 | Lt. Arnold John Miley, R.N. | 1 July 1913 | - |
535 | 2nd Lt. Ronald Falshaw Morkill (Special Reserve) | 1 July 1913 | - |
536 | Lt. Edward Osmond, R.N. | 1 July 1913 | - |
537 | William Thomas Warren | 1 July 1913 | - |
538 | 1st Class Air-Mechanic Henry Vaughan Jerrard | 2 July 1913 | - |
539 | Capt. Arthur Charles Barnby, R.M.L.I. | 2 July 1913 | - |
540 | Lt. Richard Edward Orton (1st East Lancashire Regt.) | 2 July 1913 | - |
541 | 1st Class Air-Mechanic Frank Pratt | 3 July 1913 | - |
542 | Lt. Constantin Beroniade (Roumanian Subject) | 4 July 1913 | - |
543 | Lt. Alexandru Pascanu (Roumanian Subject) | 4 July 1913 | - |
544 | Thomas Wilfrid Elsdon | 8 July 1913 | - |
545 | Graham Elesmere Harris | 8 July 1913 | - |
546 | Sir Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, Bart Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso KT, CMG, PC , known as Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt between 1912 and 1952, and often as Archie Sinclair, was a British politician and leader of the Liberal Party.... . |
8 July 1913 | - |
547 | 2nd Lt. Albert Ernest Morgan (Special Reserve) | 8 July 1913 | - |
548 | Lt. Arthur Courtney Boddam-Whetham (Reserve of Officers) | 8 July 1913 | - |
549 | Sgt. Edward Ernest Porter | 9 July 1913 | - |
550 | Lt. Maurice John Ambler (14th Hussars) | 10 July 1913 | - |
551 | Lt. Henry Le Marchant Brock (Royal Warwickshire Regt.) | 10 July 1913 | - |
552 | Willoughby Montgomery Fane Pendlebury | 11 July 1913 | - |
553 | 2nd Lt. John Hugh Macdonald Stevenson | 11 July 1913 | - |
554 | Shipwright Charles Barry Snow | 12 July 1913 | - |
555 | Herbert Bradford | 14 July 1913 | - |
556 | Hubert Poyntz-Gaynor Leigh | 14 July 1913 | - |
557 | George Alfred John Blundell | 14 July 1913 | - |
558 | William Sterling Roberts | 3 July 1913 | - |
559 | Charles R. Gallie, 1st Class Air-Mechanic. | 12 July 1913 | - |
560 | Hans Rolshoven | 14 July 1913 | WW1 pilot in German Naval Air Station Zeebrugge, 1 October 1917, CO of Seefrontstaffel I in Nieuwmunster, killed in accident 6 May 1918 |
561 | Col. Nevill Maskelyne Smyth Nevill Maskelyne Smyth Major General Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth, VC, KCB was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early life:Born the son of Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth, a noted... , V.C. |
16 July 1913 | - |
562 | Lt. Gordon Stuart Low, R.G. A. | 16 July 1913 | - |
563 | Robin Grey | 16 July 1913 | - |
564 | Edward Thomas Newton-Clare | 17 July 1913 | - |
565 | Bernard H. E. Howard | 19 July 1913 | - |
566 | Sub-Lt. Ian Hew Waldegrave Stair Dalrymple-Clark, R.N.R. | 19 July 1913 | - |
567 | Lt. Barry Fitzgerald Moore | 21 July 1913 | - |
568 | Robert Reginald Skene. | 21 July 1913 | - |
569 | Lt. Arthur Cecil Herbert Adrian Eales, I.A. | 21 July 1913 | - |
570 | J Capt. Bryan Charles Fairfax (Durham Light Infantry) | 26 July 1913 | - |
571 | (unassigned?) | - | - |
572 | Able Seaman George Savill | 18 July 1913 | - |
573 | Sgt. William James Waddington | 28 July 1913 | - |
574 | E. L. M. Leveson-Gower | 4 August 1913 | - |
575 | Louis Arbon Strange Louis Strange Louis Arbon Strange DSO OBE MC DFC was an early English aviator, World War I and World War II airman.- Early life :Louis Strange was born in Dorset and was educated at St Edward's School Oxford, joining the school's contingent of the Dorset Yeomanry.Strange spent his childhood at Tarrant Keynstone... |
5 August 1913 | - |
576 | Maxime Leverrier | 7 August 1913 | - |
577 | Leonhard Hubert Jagenberg | 9 August 1913 | - |
578 | S. J. V. Fill | 3 Aug. 1913 | - |
579 | 1st Class Air-Mechanic William Smith | 5 Aug. 1913 | - |
580 | 1st Class Air-Mechanic Frederick Dismore | 5 Aug. 1913 | - |
581 | Frank Myles Temple Reilly | 5 Aug. 1913 | - |
582 | Engine Room Artificer P. H. McCartan | 6 Aug. 1913 | - |
583 | Sgt.-Major Albert Levick | 8 Aug. 1913 | - |
584 | R. E. C. Penny | 9 Aug. 1913 | - |
585 | 2nd Lt. Joseph Frederick Mead (Royal Fusiliers) | 11 Aug. 1913 | - |
586 | Shipwright William Cole | 13 Aug. 1913 | - |
587 | Capt. Henry Cholmondeley Jackson (Bedfordshire Regt.) | 13 Aug. 1913 | - |
588 | Hereward de Havilland | 13 August 1913 | - |
589 | Lt. Napier Charles Gordon Cameron (H.M. Land Forces) | 13 Aug. 1913 | - |
590 | Surgeon Frederick George Hitch, R.N. | 14 Aug. 1913 | - |
591 | Donald William Clappen | 15 Aug. 1913 | - |
592 | Lt. Charles Curtis Darley, R.A. | 15 Aug. 1913 | - |
593 | Gordon Tsoe Kwong Wong, Chinese subject | 15 Aug. 1913 | - |
594 | Engine Room Artificer William Fleetwood Shaw | 15 Aug. 1913 | - |
595 | Capt. Lewis Pugh Evans (Black Watch) | 20 Aug. 1913 | - |
596 | Richard Crofts Powell | 20 Aug. 1913 | Photos of the cover and inside pages of Powell's licence, dated 20 August 1913, can be seen here. |
597 | Lt. Richard Edward Lewis (West India Regt.) | 20 Aug. 1913 | - |
598 | Henry Webb | 20 Aug. 1913 | - |
599 | Capt. Cyril Francis Murphy (1st Royal Berkshire Regt.) | 20 Aug. 1913 | - |
600 | Second Lt. Oswyn George William Gifford Lywood | 21 Aug. 1913 | Air Vice-Marshal Air Vice-Marshal Air vice-marshal is a two-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force. The rank is also used by the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence and it is sometimes used as the English translation of an equivalent rank in... during World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis... . |
601 | James Claud Hendry (Petty Officer, R.N.) | 20 Aug. 1913 | - |
602 | Second Lt. B. M. B. Bateman, R.F.A. | 26 Aug. 1913 | - |
603 | Lt. W. R. Crocker, R.N. | 28 Aug. 1913 | - |
604 | Sgt. F. E. Bishop, R.M.A. | 28 Aug. 1913 | - |
605 | Lt. Lord George Wellesley Lord George Wellesley Wing Commander Lord George Wellesley MC was an English soldier and airman.He was the son of Colonel Sir Arthur Charles Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington and Kathleen Emily Bulkeley Williams. His great-grandfather was Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington... (Grenadier Guards) |
28 Aug. 1913 | - |
606 | Lt. S. W. Smith, R.F.A. (S.R.) | 29 Aug. 1913 | - |
607 | Second Lt. Lord E. A. Grosvenor (H.M. Land Forces) | 29 Aug. 1913 | - |
608 | Capt. Cyril Percy Downer (Northants Regt.) | 29 Aug. 1913 | Died 10 March 1914 in an accident on Salisbury Plain while flying Vickers-built B.E. biplane no. 453 from the Central Flying School Central Flying School The Central Flying School is the Royal Air Force's primary institution for the training of military flying instructors. Established in 1912 it is the longest existing flying training school.-History:... at RAF Upavon RAF Upavon The former Royal Air Force Station Upavon, more commonly known as RAF Upavon, was a grass airfield, military flight training school, and administrative headquarters of the Royal Air Force.... . The Public Safety and Accident Investigation Committee of the Royal Aero Club Royal Aero Club The Royal Aero Club is the national co-ordinating body for Air Sport in the United Kingdom.The Aero Club was founded in 1901 by Frank Hedges Butler, his daughter Vera and the Hon Charles Rolls , partly inspired by the Aero Club of France... found that the accident was "solely due to the steep and protracted descent of the aircraft followed by an attempt, due to inexperience, to flatten out too suddenly when descending at an excessive speed." |
609 | Capt. L. E. O. Charlton Lionel Charlton Air Commodore Lionel Evelyn Oswald Charlton CB, CMG, DSO, RAF was a British infantry officer who served in the Second Boer War. During World War I, Charlton held several command and staff posts in the Royal Flying Corps, finishing the war as a brigadier-general... (Lanes. Fusiliers) |
29 Aug. 1913 | - |
610 | J. C. Joubert de la Ferte | 29 Aug. 1913 | - |
611 | Rowland Harper (Armourer's Mate, R.N.) | 29 Aug. 1913 | - |
612 | Capt. B. D. Fisher (17th Lancers) | 30 Aug. 1913 | - |
613 | The Hon. F. W. L. Vernon | 30 Aug. 1913 | - |
614 | Joseph James Bland (Hydro-aeroplane) | 30 Aug. 1913 | - |
615 | 2nd Lt. Howard Bertie Strong Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment | 3 Sept. 1913 | - |
616 | John William Wilfred Slack | 8 Sept. 1913 | - |
617 | Vivian Gaskell Blackburn | 10 Sept. 1913 | - |
618 | Walter Hugh Stewart Garnett | 10 Sept. 1913 | - |
619 | 2nd Lt. Lambert Playfair (Royal Scots) | 11 Sept. 1913 | - |
620 | Lt. Nevile Morris Jenkins, R.A. | 11 Sept. 1913 | - |
621 | Lt. Hyacinth Joseph Albert Roche (Royal Munster Fusiliers) | 12 Sept. 1913 | - |
622 | Capt. Arthur James Ellis (South Wales Borderers) | 12 Sept. 1913 | - |
623 | Lt. Jack Armand Cuningham, R.F.A. | 12 Sept. 1913 | - |
624 | Cecil Le de Spencer Wynne Roberts | 12 Sept. 1913 | - |
625 | Francis Knox Haskins, R.N. | 13 Sept. 1913 | - |
626 | Colin Layzell-Apps | 13 Sept. 1913 | - |
627 | Lt. Reginald John Bone, R.N. | 16 Aug. 1913 | - |
628 | Leonard Rupert Staddon (Carpenter Warrant Officer) | 12 Sept. 1913 | - |
629 | Frederic George Bevis | 13 Sept. 1913 | - |
630 | Engineer-Lt. Gerald West Storey Aldwell, R.N. | 15 Sept. 1913 | - |
631 | E.R.A. Albert Edward Case | 17 Sept. 1913 | - |
632 | Noel Pemberton Billing Noel Pemberton Billing Noel Pemberton Billing was an English aviator, inventor, publisher, and Member of Parliament. He founded the firm that became Supermarine and promoted air power, but he held a strong antipathy towards the Royal Aircraft Factory and its products... |
17 Sept. 1913 | - |
633 | Wilfrid Watts | 17 Sept. 1913 | - |
634 | Edward John Addis | 17 Sept. 1913 | Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in 1918. |
635 | Capt. Francis A. Ferguson, R.E. | 22 Sept. 1913 | - |
636 | Petty Officer Frederick James Hooper | 22 Sept. 1913 | - |
637 | E.R.A. Vivian Rees | 27 Sept. 1913 | - |
638 | Capt. Geoffrey Henry Cox (S.R.) | 27 Sept. 1913 | - |
639 | Frank Bernard Halford Frank Halford Major Frank Bernard Halford CBE FRAeS was an English aircraft engine designer.-Career:Educated at Felsted, In 1913 he left the University of Nottingham before graduating to learn to fly at Brooklands and Bristol Flying School and became a flight instructor using Bristol Boxkites.He served in the... |
2 Oct. 1913 | (1894–1955) after service with the Royal Flying Corps became an aero-engine designer and chairman and technical director of de Havilland engines. Designer of the de Havilland Gipsy De Havilland Gipsy The de Havilland Gipsy is a British air-cooled 4-cylinder in-line aircraft engine designed by Frank Halford in 1927 to replace the ADC Cirrus in the de Havilland D.H.60 Moth light biplane.... piston engine. |
640 | E. R. A. William Badley | 3 Oct. 1913 | - |
641 | Sir Bryan B. M. Leighton, Bart. | 3 Oct. 1913 | - |
642 | Michael Sullivan Keogh (Carpenter, R.N.) | 4 Oct. 1913 | - |
643 | Ivan Beauclerk Hart-Davies | 6 Oct. 1913 | - |
644 | Capt. George Henderson, I.A. | 7 Oct. 1913 | - |
645 | Lt. Roger Montague Boger, R.F.A. | 8 Oct. 1913 | - |
646 | Christopher Draper Christopher Draper Squadron Commander Christoper Draper, DSC Croix de guerre , was an English flying ace of World War I. His penchant for flying under bridges earned him the nickname "the Mad Major." After the war he became a film star through his work both as a stunt pilot and as an actor... |
9 Oct. 1913 | - |
647 | Lt. Ennis Tristram Ratcliffe Chambers, R.N. | 9 Oct. 1913 | - |
648 | Lt. Gerard Lowndes Edward Sherlock (3rd K.O. Hussars) | 9 Oct. 1913 | - |
649 | Lt. Charles Bennett Spence, R.F.A. | 13 Oct. 1913 | - |
650 | Willy Voigt | 15 Oct. 1913 | - |
651 | Lt. Eric Roper-Curzon Nanson, R.N.R. | 15 Oct. 1913 | - |
652 | Capt. Herbert Creagh Jenings (5th Royal Irish Lancers) | 16 Oct. 1913 | - |
653 | Capt. Thomas Couper Mudie (Royal Scots) | 16 Oct. 1913 | - |
654 | Eng.-Lt. Charles Dempster Breese Charles Breese Air Vice Marshal Charles Dempster Breese CB AFC RAF was an officer in the Royal Navy and a senior officer in the Royal Air Force in the first half of the 20th century.-Honours:... , R.N. |
16 Oct. 1913 | - |
655 | Leonard Cameron Kidd | 22 Oct. 1913 | - |
656 | Assistant-Paymaster Vyvian Harcourt Coles, R.N.R. | 22 Oct. 1913 | Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Missing in Action 21 August 1918 after the Q-ship Q-ship Q-ships, also known as Q-boats, Decoy Vessels, Special Service Ships, or Mystery Ships, were heavily armed merchant ships with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks. This gave Q-ships the chance to open fire and sink them... HMS Vala was sunk by U-Boat UB-54. |
657 | Capt, Gerald Charles Balfour Buckland (8th Gurkha Rifles, I.A. British Indian Army The British Indian Army, officially simply the Indian Army, was the principal army of the British Raj in India before the partition of India in 1947... ) |
22 Oct.1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain. |
658 | James William Humphrys Scotland | 23 Oct. 1913 | New Zealand aviator used a Caudron Biplane at the Hall School, Hendon to be the second New Zealander to gain a licence in England. In 1914 he made the first substantial cross-country flight in New Zealand. |
659 | Major Gerald Richard Vivian Kinsman, R.F.A. | 24 Oct. 1913 | Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Awarded a Distinguished Service Order Distinguished Service Order The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September... and appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Order of St Michael and St George The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III.... for his service during the first world war, died in 1963. |
660 | Reginald Kirshaw Pierson, B.Sc. | 24 Oct. 1913 | An engineer used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Became chief designer at Vickers Limited, one of his designs was the Vickers Vimy Vickers Vimy The Vickers Vimy was a British heavy bomber aircraft of the First World War and post-First World War era. It achieved success as both a military and civil aircraft, setting several notable records in long-distance flights in the interwar period, the most celebrated of which was the first non-stop... and he was chief designer of the Vickers Wellington Vickers Wellington The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engine, long range medium bomber designed in the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey, by Vickers-Armstrongs' Chief Designer, R. K. Pierson. It was widely used as a night bomber in the early years of the Second World War, before being displaced as a... . |
661 | Maurice Bernal Blake | 24 Oct. 1913 | Born in Ireland the son of Henry Arthur Blake Henry Arthur Blake Sir Henry Arthur Blake GCMG, DL was a British colonial administrator, Governor of Hong Kong from 1898 to 1903.-Early life and career:... , he is described as an equerry to Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein -Titles:*1872–1891: Her Highness Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein*1891–1900: Her Highness Princess Aribert of Anhalt*1900–1917: Her Highness Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein... , he used a Grahame-White Biplane at the Grahame-White School, Hendon. Served with the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force and died in 1934. |
662 | Lt. Alexander Gallaher (4th Dragoon Guards) | 24 Oct. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain. |
663 | Lt. Keith Frederick William Dunn, R.F.A. | 24 Oct. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain. |
664 | Lt. Charles Herbert Oxlade, R.N.R. | 25 Oct. 1913 | Used an EAC Biplane at the Eastbourne School, Eastbourne. Killed in action when in command of the sloop HMS Arbutus which was torpedoed by a U Boat (UB-65) in The Bristol Channel 15 December 1917. |
665 | Capt. Charles George Billing, R.M. | 27 Oct. 1913 | Used a Caudron Biplane at the Ewen School, Hendon. Killed in action Gallipoli 13 June 1915. |
666 | Lt. Charles Herbert Collet Charles Collet Charles Herbert Collet DSO , was a British Naval airman during the First World War, regarded as one of the best Naval airmen of his day.-Background:... , R.M.A. |
21 Oct. 1913 | Used an Avro Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon. Serving with the Royal Naval Air Service, on 22 September 1914 he was awarded the DSO for the first long distance air raid into enemy territory of the war, when he bombed the Zeppelin sheds at Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the... . He was killed at Imbros Island, Greece on the 19 August 1915. |
667 | Capt. Cecil Francis Kilner, R.M.L.I. | 22 Oct. 1913 | Used a B.E. Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon. Took part in the Cuxhaven Raid Cuxhaven Raid The Cuxhaven Raid was a British ship-based air-raid on the German naval forces at Cuxhaven mounted on Christmas Day, 1914.Aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service were carried to within striking distance by seaplane tenders of the Royal Navy, supported by both surface ships and submarines... on Zeppelin Zeppelin A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century. It was based on designs he had outlined in 1874 and detailed in 1893. His plans were reviewed by committee in 1894 and patented in the United States on 14 March 1899... sheds on Christmas Day, 1914. Died 20 October 1925 as a Royal Air Force Group Captain. |
668 | Ordinary Telegraphist Robert Millar Stirling, R.N. | 22 Oct. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Naval School, Eastchurch. |
669 | Warrant Officer Artificer Engineer William Foster Floyd, R.N. | 24 Oct. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Naval School, Eastchurch. Killed in a flying accident in Essex, 21 January 1918. |
670 | 2nd Lt. Ralph William Gore Hinds, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers | 31 Oct. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands. Killed in action in France 16 May 1915. |
671 | Lt. William Foster MacNeece (1st Battalion Queen's Own Regt.) | 31 Oct. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands. Served on the western front as a pilot during 1914, he returned to England and specialised on balloons, he was seconded to the Royal Naval Air Service to train them in the operation of kite balloons. He retired from the Royal Air Force in 1937 as an Air Commodore and was recalled during the second world war as an Air Vice-Marshal. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom) The Distinguished Flying Cross is a military decoration awarded to personnel of the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force and other services, and formerly to officers of other Commonwealth countries, for "an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying in active operations against... in 1916 after his balloon was shot-down and he escaped by parachuted being badly injured. |
672 | Petty Officer James Fraser Grady, R.N. | 1 Nov. 1913 | Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon. |
673 | 1st Air Mechanic William Hedley Butt, R.F.C. | 1 Nov. 1913 | Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon. |
674 | 1st Air Mechanic Ernest Edward Copper, R.F.C. | 1 Nov. 1913. | Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon. |
675 | Engine Room Artificer Hugh Nelson, R.N. | 1 Nov. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Naval School, Eastchurch. |
676 | Lt. de Courcy Wyndor Plunkett Ireland, R.N. | 1 Nov. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Naval School, Eastchurch. Was with the Royal Naval Air Service when he was killed 21 Feb 1916 near Rochester. |
677 | Sgt. David Patterson, R.F.C. | 4 Nov. 1913 | Used a Short Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon. |
678 | 2nd Lt. George John Malcolm, R.A. | 5 Nov. 1913 | Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Killed in action in France 9 Jul 1916 flying with 20 Squadron RFC No. 20 Squadron RAF No. 20 Squadron of the Royal Air Force was until March 2010, the OCU for the BAE Harrier GR9, and T12, operating from RAF Wittering... . |
679 | Capt. Thomas Hugh Colville Frankland (Royal Dublin Fusiliers) | 5 Nov.1913 | Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Killed in action at Gallopoli 25 April 1915. |
680 | 2nd Lt. Sydney Harry Batty-Smith (1st Loyal North Lancashire Regt.) | 5 Nov. 1913 | Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. He was the Aide-de-camp Aide-de-camp An aide-de-camp is a personal assistant, secretary, or adjutant to a person of high rank, usually a senior military officer or a head of state... to the Governor of Hong Kong Governor of Hong Kong The Governor of Hong Kong was the head of the government of Hong Kong during British rule from 1843 to 1997. The governor's roles were defined in the Hong Kong Letters Patent and Royal Instructions... when he was killed 12 February 1945 and buried at Stanley Military Cemetery. |
681 | Sub-Lt. John Douglas Harvey, R.N. | 6 Nov. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands. |
682 | 2nd Lt. Marcus Winslow Huish, R.F.A. | 8 Nov. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain. |
683 | Acting-Lt. Rupert Healey Walley, R.N.R. | 21 Oct. 1913 | Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon. |
684 | Chief-Armourer Charles Hart Whitlock, R.N. | 1 Nov. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Naval School, Eastchurch. |
685 | Sgt. Fred Farrer R.F.C. | 7 Nov. 1913 | Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon. |
686 | Lt. The Hon. Herbert Lyttelton Pelham (2nd Bn. Royal Sussex Regt.) | 11 Nov. 1913 | Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Killed in action France 14 September 1914. |
687 | Lt. Hugh Frederic Treeby (West Riding Regt.) | 16 Nov. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands. Died 19 March 1914 at Salisbury Plain. |
688 | 2nd Lt. William Ralph Elliot Harrison, R.F.A. | 21 Nov. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain. Also holds certificate #11184 awarded 21 June 1933 when he was a Lt Col at the War Office. |
689 | Henry Spencer Newton Courtney | 22 Nov. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain. |
690 | Lt. Robert John Ferguson Barton (Royal Scots Fusiliers) | 24 Nov. 1913 | Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. |
691 | Sgt. James McCrae, R.F.C. (M.W.) | 24 Nov. 1913 | Used a Short Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon. |
692 | Shipwright Henry Herbert Scott, R.N. | 24 Nov. 1913 | Used a Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon. |
693 | Capt. Daniel Harrison Macdonell, D.S.O. | 25 Nov. 1913 | A captain in the North Nigeria Regiment used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Won the DSO Distinguished Service Order The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September... in the South African War in the early 1900s and became a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. |
694 | Lt. Augustus Charles Earle Marsh | 26 Nov. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Salisbury Plain. Claimed the first confirmed RFC victory in the first world war when with 6 Squadron No. 6 Squadron RAF No. 6 Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 at RAF Leuchars.It was previously equipped with the Jaguar GR.3 in the close air support and tactical reconnaissance roles, and was based at RAF Coltishall, Norfolk until April 2006, moving to RAF Coningsby until... he shot down a "Fokker" on 1 November 1914. |
695 | Lt. Cedric Yeats McDonald (Seaforth Highlanders) | 27 Nov. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands. |
696 | 2nd Lt. Gerald Henry Broadhurst, R.F.A. | 29 Nov. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands. Missing in action in Flanders 8 May 1915. |
697 | Owen Bulmer Howell | 29 Nov. 1913 | Described as a Soliciter, used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Served in the Royal Naval Air Service. |
698 | John Marten Rush Cripps | 2 Dec. 1913 | Used a Grahame-White Biplane at the Grahame-White School, Hendon. Served in the Royal Naval Air Service. |
699 | Rolf Gustav Ugo von Segebaden | 7 Dec. 1913 | Swedish aviator used a Grahame-White Biplane at the Grahame-White School, Hendon. |
700 | Capt. Maurice George Lee, I.A. (40th Pathans) | 8. Dec. 1913 | New Zealand-born aviator used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. |
701 | Sgt. Duncan Mitchell RFC | 11. Dec. 1913 | Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon. |
702 | Capt. Basil Henri Louis Hay | 11. Dec. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School at Salisbury Plain and Brooklands. |
703 | Harold Richard Johnson | 11. Dec. 1913 | Described as a motor engineer used a Caudron Biplane at the Ewen School, Hendon. Killed in action in France 19 January 1916 in a flying accident with 3 Squadron RFC No. 3 Squadron RAF No 3 Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Typhoon F2, FGR4 and T3 from RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire.No 3 Squadron, which celebrated its 95th anniversary over the weekend of 11-13 May 2007, is unique in the RAF for having two official crests.... . |
704 | Norman Howarth | 11. Dec. 1913 | Described as an engineer used a Grahame-White Biplane at the Grahame-White School, Hendon. |
705 | Second Lt. Thomas Leonard Stanley Holbrow, R.E. | 13. Dec. 1913 | Used a Caudron Biplane at the Ewen School, Hendon. Killed in action in France 28 March 1918. |
706 | William Henry Elliott | 22 Nov. 1913 | Used an Avro Biplane at the Shoreham Flying School, Shoreham. |
707 | Sgt. John Roland Gardiner RFC | 11 Dec 1913 | Used a Short Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon. |
708 | Ian Cameron Macdonell | 17 Dec. 1913 | Canadian aviator and described as an engineer used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands. Killed in action in France 2 July 1916. |
709 | Sir Robert George Vivian Duff | 18 Dec. 1913 | Listed by the RAeC as Robin George Duff, used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Killed in action in Belgium 16 October 1914. |
710 | James Leonard Finney | 19 Dec. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands. |
711 | Capt. Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding GCB, GCVO, CMG was a British officer in the Royal Air Force... , R.A. |
20 Dec. 1913 | Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Flew with the Royal Flying Corps and later Royal Air Force, He was the commander of RAF Fighter Command RAF Fighter Command RAF Fighter Command was one of three functional commands of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of fighter aircraft. It served throughout the Second World War, gaining recognition in the Battle of Britain. The Command continued until 17 November 1943, when... during the Battle of Britain Battle of Britain The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940... . Retired as an Air Vice Marshal in 1942 and became Baron Dowding of Bentley Priory. Died in 1970 aged 87. |
712 | Sgt. Frederick George Bateman RFC | 20 Dec. 1913 | Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Royal Flying Corps, Netheravon. |
713 | Lt. Charles Edward Ridgway Bridson (3rd Battalion King's Own Regiment) | 20 Dec. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands. Died in Belgium 4 April 1916 aged 25. |
714 | Sub-Lt. Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet Air Vice Marshal Sir Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet KBE CB DSO, DL was an Air Vice Marshal during World War II and a former Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.-RAF career:... , R.N. |
22 Dec. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School at Salisbury Plain and Brooklands. Retired in 1945 as a Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal and became the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man The Lieutenant Governor is the representative on the Isle of Man of the Lord of Mann . He/she has the power to grant Royal Assent and is styled His Excellency. In recent times the Governor has either been a retired diplomat or senior military officer... until 1952, he died in 1983. |
715 | Lt. Rowland Edward Brian Hunt | 22 Dec. 1913 | Used an EAC Biplane at the Eastbourne Aviation School. Eastbourne. |
716 | Lt. Edmund Digby Maxwell Robertson, R.N. | 22 Dec. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School at Brooklands. Later flew with the Royal Air Force and retired in 1935 as an Air Commodore, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom) The Distinguished Flying Cross is a military decoration awarded to personnel of the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force and other services, and formerly to officers of other Commonwealth countries, for "an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying in active operations against... in 1919. |
717 | Andrew Delfosse Badgery | 22 Dec. 1913 | Australian-born aviator used a Caudron Biplane at the Ewen School, Hendon. Flew with the Australian Flying Corps from 1916 to 1918. Was married to Dorothy Wall Dorothy Wall Dorothy Wall was a New Zealand-born author and illustrator of children's fiction books. She is most famous for creating Blinky Bill, an anthropomorphic koala who was the central character in her books Blinky Bill: the Quaint Little Australian , Blinky Bill Grows Up and Blinky Bill and Nutsy... an author and illustrator of children's fiction books. |
718 | Lt. Robert Crosby Halahan, R.N. | 24 Dec. 1913 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Salisbury Plain. Killed in action June 1916 in North Sea with the loss of Submarine E18 HMS E18 HMS E18 was an E-class submarine of the Royal Navy, launched in 1915 and lost in the Baltic Sea in May 1916 while operating out of Reval. The exact circumstances surrounding the sinking remain a mystery. The wreck of the submarine was discovered in October 2009.- 1915 :E18 entered service in the UK... . |
719 | Cecil Francis Webb | 31 Dec. 1913 | Described as an engineer and draughtsman he used a Grahame-White Biplane at the Grahame-White School at Hendon. |