| 201 |
Lt. Alexander Ernest Burchardt-Ashton, 4th Dragoon Guards |
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| Gained Certificate
on 16 April 1912. Used a Bristol Biplane at Larkhill, Salisbury Plain. He hit and killed a 15-year-old boy at Larkhill
in May 1912 when he landed too fast and ran into the crowd. Because of a lack of brakes at the time it was deemed an accidental
death. He resigned his commission in 1915, and was killed in action in France on 11 July 1916 as a Lance Corporal with the
Royal Fusiliers. |
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| 202 |
Lt.
F. A. P. Williams-Freeman RN |
| | | Gained Certificate on 16 April 1912. |
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| 203 | Com. O. Schwann
RN |
| | | Gained Certificate on 16 April 1912 on a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury.
Born 18 November 1878, Oliver Schwann joined the Royal Navy in 1895. In 1909, as a Commander, he was appointed to HMS
Hermione at Barrow-in-Furness as Assistant Inspecting Captain of Airships, under Captain Murray Sueter, supervising the
construction of H M Airship R1. Later, Schwann bought an Avro Type D landplane (at his own expense and with support from
Cmdr Masterman, Lt-Cmdr Boothby, Engineer Lt Randall, Captain Murray Sueter (all from HMS Hermione) and Mrs Sueter)
for £700 and fitted floats to it. In November 1912, he was appointed Assistant Director of the Air Department at the
Admiralty, deputy to Murray Sueter. Over the next two years Sueter and Schwann worked to establish the Royal Naval Air Service.
In 1914, Schwann was promoted to captain and in 1915 was appointed captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Campania. In 1917 Oliver
Schwann anglicized the spelling of his name to Swann. With the establishment of the RAF in 1918, Swann was transferred to
the new service and served as Deputy Chief of the Air Staff during the last months of the war and into 1919. He held various
posts until late he retired from the RAF in 1929. During WWII, he was recalled to service as the Commandant of No. 1 School
of Technical Training at RAF Halton. He retired from the RAF for the second time in July 1940 and afterwards worked as the
Air Liaison Officer for the North Midland Region. Air Vice Marshal Sir Oliver Swann, KCB, CBE died on 7 March 1948 at his
home in Littleton, Guildford. |
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| 204 |
Capt.
P. W. L. Broke-Smith RE |
| | | Gained Certificate on 16 April 1912. Awarded
Airship Pilot’s Certificate No. 2 on 14 February 1911. |
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| 205 | Lt. L. C. Rogers Harrison |
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| Gained Certificate
on 16 April 1912. Killed in air crash in a Cody Biplane on 28 April 1913 at Farnborough. |
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| 206 | Sub.-Lt. C. H. K. Edmonds RN |
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Gained Certificate on 16 April 1912. Awarded the DSO for his role in the Cuxhaven Raid in 1914; in 1917 made
the first successful aerial torpedo attack i.e. from a Short Seaplane against a Turkish ship. He was an Air Vice Marshal
during World War II. |
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| 207 |
D.
G. Young |
| | | Gained Certificate on 16 April 1912. |
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| 208 | Lucien Alfred Tremlett |
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Gained Certificate on 30 April 1912. Born in Paris in 1887 he took his certificate on a Bleriot Monoplane at
Hendon. |
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| 209 |
Lt.
John Dolben Mackworth |
| | | Gained Certificate on 30 April 1912. Born in Wales in
1887 he took his certificate on a Bristol Biplane at Brooklands. Later a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Flying Corps involved
with the development of ballons and kite balloons, he died in 1939. |
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| 210 | Lt. E. F. Chinnery |
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| Gained Certificate
on 30 April 1912. |
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| 211 |
John
Robertson Duigan |
| | | Gained Certificate on 30 April 1912 on an Avro biplane
at Brooklands. Born in Terang, Victoria, NSW, on 31 May 1882, Duigan travelled to the U.K. in late 1901 to study electrical
engineering at Finsbury Technical College (1902-1904) and Motor Engineering at Battersea Polytechnic (1905). He worked for
the Wakefield & District Light Railway Co. until 1907 when he returned to Australia. There, he built a Farman type machine,
which first flew on 7 October 1910, the first Australian-made aircraft. In June 1911 Duigan returned to the United Kingdom
to gain his aviator's certificate using a tractor biplane built by A.V. Roe and purchased by Duigan in late 1911. In 1916
he joined the Australian Flying Corps and served in France until 1919. For his services he was awarded the Military Cross.
After demobilization he was engaged for the rest of his career in the motor industry. Duigan died of cancer on 11 June 1951.
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| 212 |
Lt.
H. C. Fielding |
| | | Gained Certificate on 30 April 1912. |
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| 213 | Major Sir Alexander Bannerman, Bart., RE |
| | | Gained Certificate on 30 April 1912. |
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| 214 | Lt. Alan Hartree RFA |
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| Gained Certificate
on 14 May 1912. |
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| 215 |
Lt.
Gordon Strachey Shephard |
| | | Gained Certificate on 14 May 1912. Rose quickly
to the rank of Brigadier-General at age 32. Commanding Officer of 1st Brigade R.F.C, died 19 January 1918 when his Nieuport
Scout span into the ground. |
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| 216 |
Lt.
Donald Swain Lewis RE |
| | | Gained Certificate on 14 May 1912. Died on an inspection
flight in France in 1916. |
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| 217 |
Capt.
Godfrey Paine RN |
| | | Gained Certificate on 14 May 1912. First commandant of
the Central Flying School at RAF Upavon; he attained the ranks of Major-General, Rear-Admiral and Air Vice-Marshal, possibly
the only person to have held flag, general and air officer ranks in the British armed services; he was also Inspector-General
of the RAF and 5th Sea Lord/Director of Naval Aviation |
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| 218 | Henry Charles Baird |
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| Gained Certificate
on 4 June 1912. |
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| 219 |
Hugh
Percy Nesham |
| | | Gained Certificate on 4 June 1912. |
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| 220 | Charles Lindsay-Campbell |
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Gained Certificate on 4 June 1912. Killed at Brooklands in a Bristol monoplane on 3 August 1912 when the aircraft
stalled after engine failure. |
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| 221 |
Francis
Henry Fowler |
| | | Gained Certificate on 4 June 1912. |
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| 222 | Thomas O'Brien Hubbard |
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Gained Certificate on 4 June 1912. 1882-1962 Served with the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force 1914-1921,
awarded the Military Cross and Air Force Cross, retired as a Royal Air Force Group Captain. |
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| 223 | Montague Righton Nevill Jennings |
| | | Gained Certificate on 4 June 1912. 1890-1976 Served with the Royal Flying Corps
and was awarded the Military Cross and Air Force Cross in 1918, later served with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
during the Second World War. |
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| 224 |
Alphonse
Potet |
| | | Gained Certificate on 4 June 1912. A French mechanic used a Bleriot
Monoplane at Hendon. |
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| 225 |
Richard
Thomas Gates |
| | | Gained Certificate on 4 June 1912. Former Yeomanry officer
he used a Howard-Wright Biplane at Hendon. Became general manager of the Grahame-White factory at Hendon, he was given a
special duty commission in the Royal Naval Air Service at the start of the first world war. Died of injuries on 14 September
1914 a few days after his Henry Farman biplane crashed at Hendon returning from an anti-Zeppelin patrol. |
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| 226 | Lt. David Percival
RGA |
| | | Gained Certificate on 4 June 1912. |
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| 227 | 2nd.-Corporal Frank Ridd RE |
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Gained Certificate on 4 June 1912. Using a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain he becomes the first non-commissioned
officer to become a pilot. |
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| 228 |
Lt.
Leonard Dawes |
| | | Gained Certificate on 4 June 1912. |
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| 229 | Lt. J. N. Fletcher RE |
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Gained Certificate on 4 June 1912. |
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| 230 | Lt. Baron Trevenen James RE |
| | | Gained Certificate on 4 June
1912. |
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| 231 |
Marcus
Dyce Manton |
| | | Gained Certificate on 4 June 1912. |
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| 232 | Staff-Sergeant Richard H. V. Wilson RE |
| | | Gained Certificate on 18 June 1912. Died in a crash on Salisbury Plain 5 July 1912,
in a Nieuport piloted by Eustace B. Loraine. |
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| 233 | Lt. Desmond L. Arthur |
| | | Gained Certificate on 18 June 1912. Died
on the morning of 27 May 1913 at Montrose when the upper starboard wing of his aircraft, a B.E. Biplane (No 205), broke,
causing both starboard planes to collapse progressively. The Accident Investigation Committee decided that the primary
cause of the accident was the failure of a faulty joint in a repair to the rear main spar. The Committee expressed the opinion
"that the repair referred to was (...) so badly done that it could not possibly be regarded as the work of a conscientious
and competent workman." |
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| 234 |
Lt.
Ercole Ercole |
| | | Gained Certificate on 18 June 1912. Italian Army aviator
used a Bristol biplane at Larkhill, Salisbury Plain. |
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| 235 | Paul Dubois |
| | | Gained Certificate on 18 June
1912. |
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| 236 |
Capt.
John Harold Whitworth Becke |
| | | Gained Certificate on 18 June 1912. Royal
Flying Corps aviator used a Bristol Biplane at Brooklands. Retired from the Royal Air Force as a Brigadier-General in 1920. |
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| 237 | Norman S. Roupell |
| | | Gained Certificate on 18 June 1912. |
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| 238 | Edward H. Morriss |
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| Gained Certificate
on 18 June 1912. |
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| 239 |
Capt.
A. D. Carden |
| | | Gained Certificate on 18 June 1912. |
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| 240 | Capt. Herbert Charles Agnew RE |
| | | Gained Certificate on 2 July 1912. |
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| 241 | Lionel Boyd Moss |
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| Gained Certificate
on 2 July 1912. |
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| 242 |
Capt.
T. Ince Webb-Bowen |
| | | Gained Certificate on 2 July 1912. |
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| 243 | Vivian Hugh Nicholas Wadham |
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Gained Certificate on 16 July 1912. |
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| 244 | P. L. W. Herbert |
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| Gained Certificate
on 16 July 1912. |
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| 245 |
A.
Christie |
| | | Gained Certificate on 16 July 1912. |
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| 246 | H. I. Bulkely |
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Gained Certificate on 16 July 1912. |
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| 247 | E. V. Anderson |
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| Gained Certificate
on 16 July 1912. |
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| 248 |
Ronald
Hargrave Kershaw |
| | | Gained Certificate on 16 July 1912. Royal Naval Air Service
aviator used a Howard Wright biplane at Hendon, later a Group Captain in the Royal Air Force, died in 1969. |
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| 249 | K. R. Shaw |
| | | Gained Certificate on 16 July 1912. |
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| 250 | R. A. Lister |
| | | Gained Certificate on 16 July
1912. |
