151 |
Frank Martin Ballard |
| | Gained Certificate on 31 October
1911. |
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152 |
Lt.
Henry Harold Harford |
| | Gained Certificate on 7 November 1911. Used a Bristol
biplane at Brooklands, a Lieutenant in the Rpyal Field Artillery in 1911 he was born in Lahore, India on 1 January 1887. |
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153 | Mrs. Cheridah
de Beauvoir Stocks |
| | Gained Certificate on 7 November 1911. Licence test flights
at Hendon using a Farman biplane, the second British woman to hold a licence. Gave up flying following a serious flying
accident at Hendon in 1913. |
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154 |
Eustace
B. Loraine |
| | Gained Certificate on 7 November 1911. Holder of French certificate
no. 126, died in a crash in a Nieuport 70 Gnome Monoplane on Salisbury Plain 5 July 1912, the first RFC officer to die
in this way; Staff-Sergeant R.H.V.Wilson, his passenger, also died in the crash. |
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155 | Oswald Lawrence Mellersh |
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| Gained Certificate
on 14 November 1911. 1892-1974 Moved to Canada in 1925 |
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156 | Sub.-Lt. Francis Esmé Theodore Hewlett RN |
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Gained Certificate on 14 November 1911. Used a Farman Biplane at Brooklands. Son of the first woman to hold a
licence, Hilda Hewlett. Took part in the Cuxhaven Raid in 1914. Transferred to the Royal Air Force and then Royal New Zealand
Air Force. |
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157 |
Robert
Bertram Slack |
| | Gained Certificate on 14 November 1911. |
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158 | Captain Richard Scorer Molyneux Harrison |
| | Gained Certificate on 14 November 1911. A Captain with the 51st Sikhs (Frontier
Force), used a Bristol Biplane at Brooklands. Killed in action 16 August 1915 during the Gallipoli campaign. |
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159 | Captain Clement
Robert Wedgwood Allen, Welch Regiment |
| | Gained Certificate on 14 November 1911. Used
a Bristol Biplane at Brooklands for certificate. Died in an aircraft accident 11 March 1914. |
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160 | H. A. Williamson |
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Gained Certificate on 28 November 1911. |
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161 | Robert Smith-Barry |
| | Gained Certificate on 28 November 1911. |
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162 | George Bentley
Dacre |
| | Gained Certificate on 28 November 1911. RNAS pilot and prisoner
of war during World War I, senior RAF commander during World War II. |
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163 | Lt. John Graham Bower |
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| Gained Certificate
on 28 November 1911. |
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164 |
James
Arthur Anderson |
| | Gained Certificate on 28 November 1911. |
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165 | Maj. R. L. Benwell |
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Gained Certificate on 6 December 1911. |
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166 | Capt. Robert Gordon |
| | Gained Certificate on 6 December 1911. |
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167 | James Denys
Perceval Chataway |
| | Gained Certificate on 12 December 1911. Used a Deperdussin
Monoplane at the Deperdussin School, Brooklands. |
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168 | Charles Ferris Montagu Chambers |
| | Gained Certificate on 12 December
1911. Used a Valkyrie Monoplane at Hendon. |
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169 | Lt. Garthshore Tindal Porter RA |
| | Gained Certificate on 9 January
1912. (1887-1957) Australian-born. Used a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain. Born in Queensland Colony before joining the
British Army. Served in the Royal Garrison Artillery, the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force. Died in Cheltenham. |
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170 | Lt. Amyas Eden
Borton, Black Watch |
| | Gained Certificate on 9 January 1912. (1886-1969) Used
a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain. Served in the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force. Retired as an Air Vice-Marshal,
in 1933. |
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171 |
Benjamin
Graham Wood |
| | Gained Certificate on 9 January 1912. (1883-1967) An engineer.
Used a Hewlett and Blondeau Farman biplane at Brooklands. |
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172 | Sydney Vincent Sippe |
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| Gained Certificate
on 9 January 1912. Used an Avro biplane at Brooklands. Flew with the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
On 21 November 1914 he attacked the Zeppelin sheds at Lake Constance. Sippe was awarded the Distinguished Service Order
in 1915, he died in 1968. |
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173 |
Tom
Garne |
| | Gained Certificate on 16 January 1912. Used a Bristol biplane
at Brooklands. |
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174 |
Lt. Napier John Gill |
| | Napier John Gill was born on 5 April 1890
to Robert Thomas Gill and Clara Augusta (née Boult), in Kensington, London. He was educated at Rugby and the RMA,
Woolwich, and commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, in December 1910. He began flying in a Deperdussin monoplane
at Brooklands, and gained his Aviators Certificate in the same aircraft on 16 January 1912. For a period in 1912,
took charge of the Deperdussin School at Brooklands from May until it closed in September that year. He was seconded to
the Military Wing of the RFC, passed the pilots course at the newly formed Central Flying School at Upavon on 15 August
1913, and reported for duty with 5 Squadron at Farnborough a few days later. He was appointed Flight Commander and Captain
the following year, and in August 1914 was made Wing Adjutant, RFC. From July 1915 Gill served on the Western Front in France
and was appointed Brigade Major to Brigadier General Higgins, commanding 3rd Brigade RFC (MC).He was promoted to Lieutenant
Colonel and appointed Assistant Adjutant General RFC. He authored "The Flyer's Guide: An Elementary Handbook for
Aviators" in 1916. Upon the formation of the RAF, he was granted a permanent commission on 1 January 1918.
He was awarded the Order of the British Empire, CBE, in the New Year’s Honours List of 1 January 1919 and promoted
to Wing Commander on 2 August the same year. Gill briefly commanded 210 Squadron at Gosport in 1921 before being appointed
to Command the experimental RAF Station at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, which he held until September 1924. Promoted to Group
Captain after serving in Iraq 1925-27, he became closely involved in the preparation which led to Britain's Schneider
Trophy success in 1931. Following a number of senior appointments including Air Officer Commanding No. 10 Group, S.A.S.O.
H.Q. Coastal Area (promoted to Air Commodore) and A.O.A., H.Q. Fighter Command, for which he was appointed Most Honourable
Order of The Bath, CB, on 5 February 1936. He retired from the RAF his own request in 1936. After leaving the
Service he joined the Boulton Paul Aircraft Company as General Manager until 1942, when he became General Manager of Marine
Mountings Ltd. Air Commodore Napier John Gill, CB, CBE, MC died on 20 October 1948; he resided at Marlborough,
Wiltshire, but died at Inveroich, Fort Augustus, Inverness. |
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175 | Frederick Bernard Fowler |
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| Gained Certificate
on 16 January 1912. Founded the Eastbourne Aviation Company; in 1919, at the rank of Major, he was awarded the AFC . He
was also a member of the 1921 Sempill Mission to Japan, for which he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun (4th Class) |
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176 | Lt. Alan Geoffrey
Fox RE |
| | Gained Certificate on 30 January 1912. |
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177 | Lt. Eric Mackay Murray |
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Gained Certificate on 30 January 1912. 1886-1954Served in the Royal Flying Corps and was awarded the Military
Cross and the Distinguished Service Order, retired in 1933 as a Group Captain in the Royal Air Force. |
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178 | Giovanni Sabelli |
| | Giovanni Sabelli was born into a wealthy family on 23 September 1886 in Napoli
and studied engineering in New York. He learned to fly at Brooklands in 1912 and gained his Aviators Certificate on 30
January 1912 flying a Deperdussin Monoplane. During the First Balkan War, he volunteered to fly combat for the Bulgarians
against the Turks, reputed to be one of the organizers of the air effort versus the Ottoman Empire. Sabelli
volunteered for military service when Italy finally entered the First World War, commissioned as a reserve sotto-tenente
in the Engineering Corps. Although already a licensed pilot and a combat veteran, he had to pass new flying examinations
to fly for his country; he passed both basic and advanced military licenses for Aviatiks in August 1915. After being assigned
on 30 August, he flew familiarization flights with the Adriatic Defense Flight before being sent to France to train on Nieuport
11s in mid-October 1915. He returned to Italy to fly combat for a while, being posted on 1 February 1916 to 2a Squadriglia
Caccia, without scoring any aerial victories, but winning a Silver Medal for Military Valor. While assigned here, he also
served temporary duty as a Nieuport test pilot at Malpensa between 29 May and 2 July 1915. On 9 September 1916, he was promoted
to tenente and transferred to command a Nieuport Defence Section (later to become 85a Squadriglia) in Albania. In April
1917, Sabelli rejoined his old unit, now denoted as 71a Squadriglia. He would spend only a few days there; on 9 May 1917,
he was assigned to 91a Squadriglia. In company with Michele Allasia, Sabelli he scored his first victory on 10 August
1917, shooting down a Hansa-Brandenburg C.I. By September, he had scored five victories and was awarded another Silver
Medal. On 25 October 1917, he was flying as a wingman to Pier Piccio near the Battle of Caporetto when Piccio
attacked an enemy two-seater. Piccio's guns jammed, and Sabelli took his position. An enemy patrol surprised Sabelli from
behind and shot him down trailing smoke. Sabelli's body was never found. |
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179 | Frederick Warren Merriam |
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| See Merriam |
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180 | William Bendall |
| | Gained Certificate on 6 February 1912. |
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181 | Eng. Lt. Charles Russell Jekyl Randall |
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| Gained Certificate
on 13 February 1912. |
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182 |
Capt.
Thomas Weeding |
| | Gained Certificate on 13 February 1912. |
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183 | Damer Leslie Allen |
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Gained Certificate on 20 February 1912. Disappeared while attempting to cross the Irish Channel from Holyhead
on 18 April 1912. |
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184 |
Sydney
Parr |
| | Gained Certificate on 20 February 1912. |
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185 | Lt. Bertram Richard White Beor RFA |
| | Gained Certificate on 20 February 1912. |
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186 | Marcel Desoutter |
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| See Desoutter |
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187 | Lt. Stephen
Christopher Winfield-Smith |
| | Gained Certificate on 27 February 1912. |
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188 | Lt. Cecil Thomas
Carfrae RFA |
| | Gained Certificate on 27 February 1912. |
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189 | Herbert Dennis Cutler |
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Gained Certificate on 5 March 1912. |
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190 | Victor Annesley Barrington-Kennett |
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| Gained Certificate
on 5 March 1912. (1887-1916). 2nd Lt in the London Balloon Corps used a Short biplane at Eastchurch. Killed in action
flying a Bristol Scout on 13 Mar 1916 in Flanders while serving as a Major and commanding officer of No. 4 Squadron Royal
Flying Corps. Three of the four brothers were killed in the Great War (see also Aviator's Certificate No. 43). |
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191 | Lt. Clement
Gordon Wakefield Head RN |
| | Gained Certificate on 5 March 1912. -Lt.
Cmdr of HM Submarine D2 which was rammed and sunk by German Patrol boat in the North Sea off Borkum Island on 25 November
1914. Memorial on Portsmouth Naval Memorial for Officers killed in 1914 and in Seaford Cemetery. |
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192 | Lt. Charles Longcroft |
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Gained Certificate on 5 March 1912. RFC pilot, squadron, wing and brigade commander during World War I. First
Commandant of the RAF College Cranwell. |
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193 |
Cyril
Wright Meredith |
| | Gained Certificate on 5 March 1912. |
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194 | Capt. Patrick Hamilton |
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Gained Certificate on 12 March 1912. Died in a crash in Deperdussin Monoplane 100 Gnome No. 258 at Graveley,
near Welwyn, on 6 September 1912. Passenger Lieut. A. Wyness-Stuart (Aviator's Certificate No. 141) was also killed. The
accident was considered to have been caused by "a part of the engine coming off and hitting the bonnet over the engine,
smashing one of the wing wires, and thus loosening the wings". |
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195 | Cecil J. L'Estrange Malone |
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| Gained Certificate
on 12 March 1912. Pioneer naval aviator and Britain's first communist member of the House of Commons |
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196 | Major George Hebden Raleigh, Essex Regiment |
| | Gained Certificate on 12 March 1912. (1878-1915) Australian. Used a Bristol Monoplane
at Brooklands, killed in action 21 January 1915 off Belgian Coast, flying a Vickers FB.5 Born in Melbourne and educated
at Geelong Grammar School, before joining the British Army and serving in the 2nd Boer War: Queen's South Africa Medal and
8 clasps. |
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197 |
Ronald
Louis Charteris |
| | Gained Certificate on 12 March 1912. Used a Deperdussin
Monoplane at Brooklands, an aeronautical engineer with the All British Engine Company. |
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198 | George Prensiell |
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Gained Certificate on 19 March 1912. A German engineer, used a Bleriot Monoplane at Hendon. |
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199 | William Ewart Hart |
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Gained Certificate on 26 March 1912. (1885-1943) An Australian aviator who was the first to qualify in Australia,
holding an Australian Aviator's Licence No.1, dated 5 December 1911. |
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200 | Capt. Francis John Brodigan |
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| Gained Certificate
on 26 March 1912. |