251 |
Harold Sweetman-Powell |
| | Gained Certificate on 24 July
1912. |
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252 |
Lt.
Hugh Lambert Reilly IA |
| | Gained Certificate on 24 July 1912. |
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253 | Air Mechanic William Victor Strugnell |
| | Gained Certificate on 24 July 1912. |
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254 | Lt. F. M. Worthington-Wilmer |
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| Gained Certificate
on 24 July 1912. |
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255 |
Capt.
Robert C. W. Alston |
| | Gained Certificate on 24 July 1912. |
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256 | Lt. Claude Albemarle Bettington |
| | Gained Certificate on 24 July 1912. Killed on 10 September 1912, as a passenger
of Edward Hotchkiss, when their Bristol Monoplane crashed due to the failure of a quick release cable fitment, which caused
the fabric of the starboard wing to fail. |
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257 |
Capt.
Charles Darbyshire |
| | Gained Certificate on 24 July 1912. |
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258 | Robert William Rickerby Gill |
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Gained Certificate on 24 July 1912. |
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259 | Edward Petre |
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| See Petre |
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260 | Lt. Francis
FitzGerald Waldron |
| | Gained Certificate on 24 July 1912. |
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261 | Herbert Rutter Simms |
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Gained Certificate on 24 July 1912. Used an Avro Biplane at The Roe School, Brooklands. Killed in action as a
Flight Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Air Service off the Belgian Coast 5 May 1916. |
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262 | Pte. John Edmonds RMLI |
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| Gained Certificate
on 30 July 1912. |
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263 |
Sidney
Pickles |
| | Gained Certificate on 30 July 1912. |
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264 | Maj. John Frederick Andrews Higgins RFA |
| | Gained Certificate on 30 July 1912. |
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265 | Eng. Lt. Edward Featherstone Briggs RN |
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| Gained Certificate
on 30 July 1912. Led the bombing raid on the Zeppelin Base at Friedrichshafen on November 21, 1914. Shot down and wounded
by anti-aircraft fire and became a POW. Served in the RAF after the war and retired with the rank of Group Captain. Died
in 1962. |
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266 |
Capt.
Charles Percy Nicholas IA |
| | Gained Certificate on 30 July 1912. |
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267 | Lt. Kenlis Parcival
Atkinson RFA |
| | Gained Certificate on 30 July 1912. |
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268 | Ralph Gerald Holyoake |
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Gained Certificate on 13 August 1912. |
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269 | Air Mechanic William Thomas James McCudden |
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| Gained Certificate
on 13 August 1912. Used a Bristol Biplane at the Army School, Salisbury Plain. He was the elder brother of James McCudden
VC. Died when his Bleriot had engine trouble on 1 May 1915 at Fort Grange. |
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270 | Maj. Hugh Montague Trenchard |
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| Gained Certificate
on 13 August 1912. Later to command the Royal Flying Corps in France and serve as first Chief of the Air Staff |
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271 | Lt. Reginald
Cholmondeley |
| | Gained Certificate on 13 August 1912. |
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272 | Capt. John Maitland Salmond |
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Gained Certificate on 13 August 1912. A Captain in the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment he used a Grahame-White
Biplane at the Grahame-White School at Hendon. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Maitland Salmond retired from the
Royal Air Force in 1943 and he died in 1968. |
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273 | Capt. Alister Maxwell MacDonell |
| | Gained Certificate on 13 August
1912. |
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274 |
William
Snowdon Hedley |
| | Gained Certificate on 13 August 1912. |
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275 | William John Harrison |
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Gained Certificate on 13 August 1912. |
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276 | Staff-Sergeant William Thomas |
| | Gained Certificate on 3 September
1912. |
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277 |
Capt.
Robert Harry Lucas Cordner RAMC |
| | Gained Certificate on 3 September 1912. |
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278 |
Richard Harold Barnwell |
| | See Barnwell Biography |
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279 | Capt. The Hon. Claude Brabazon |
| | Gained Certificate on 3 September 1912. |
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280 | Lt. Philip Joubert de la Ferté RFA |
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| Gained Certificate
on 3 Sept.1912. Retired in 1945 as Air Chief Marshal RAF |
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281 | Maj. Edward Bailey Ashmore MVO, RFA |
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| Gained Certificate
on 3 September 1912. |
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282 |
Lt.
Claude Grenville Shephard Gould RGA |
| | Gained Certificate on 3 September 1912. |
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283 | Lt. Patrick
Henry Lyon Playfair RFA |
| | Gained Certificate on 3 September 1912. |
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284 | Lt. F. A. Wanklyn
RFA |
| | Gained Certificate on 3 September 1912. |
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285 | Walter Laurence Brock |
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Walter Laurence Brock was born on 16 September 1885 in Bloomington, Illinois, USA. Brock became a skilled
master aviation mechanic and master machinist, prior to receiving his pilot’s license, which he earned at Chicago’s
Ashburn Airport, presumably before he departed for Europe in 1911. A member of the Illinois Aero Club, it is presumed
these skills were the reason that the club asked him to represent them in European air racing events. Brock was
certainly in England in June 1912; he was awarded his Aviators Certificate on 3 September 1912, flying a Deperdussin Monoplane
at the Deperdussin School, Hendon, and by October he had become an Instructor at the School. In January 1913 he left British
Deperdussin and joined up with the Grahame-White Aviation Co. Brock flew in the 1913 UK Aerial Derby but was not
placed. On the 8 November, flying in the London-Brighton-London Air Race, he flew to a second place finish. The third
UK Aerial Derby was held at Hendon Aerodrome on 16 June 1914. Flying Claude Grahame White’s Morane-Saulnier G monoplane,
powered by a nine cylinder 80 h.p. Gnome Lamda rotary engine, Brock won the race, and became unbeatable flying in races
with this combination of aircraft and engine. On 20 June he won the London-Brighton-London Air Race flying the same machine. Brock flew in his last European air race on 11 July 1914. This final race known as the “International Correspondence
Schools London-Paris-London Air Race,” that would begin at Hendon Aerodrome. From Hendon to Paris BUC Aerodrome
each contestant would land and wait for two hours before heading back to Hendon Aerodrome. Brock in his Morane-Saulnier
won in a record total finish time of seven hours, three minutes, and six seconds. Apparently by now Brock had
won in excess of $50,000 dollars in prize money. Before Britain had entered the war against Germany, Claude Grahame-White
and Walter Laurence Brock had the Morane-Saulnier crated and ready for shipment to the USA. The crates containing the machine
were labeled “Brock Airplane”, which has led some historians to believe that Brock had made his own aircraft
in Chicago. Brock arrived back in in the United States on 13 August 1914. He was a member all his life in the
Illinois Aero Club, and as an affiliate he established the Illinois Model Aero Club in 1915 to help teach young people
about the science of aviation by designing and making aeromodels. He joined Thomas Brothers of Ithaca, N.Y., as a test pilot,
but following an accident in which he was badly burnt, he retired from active flying. He then went to work for the Partridge-Keller
Aeroplane Company in Chicago as a designer in 1915 There he designed a custom exhibition biplane for stunt pilot and aviatrix
Katherine Stinson. From this point on little is known of Brocks life. He died in December 1964. |
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286 | Engine-room
Artificer Thomas O'Connor RN |
| | Gained Certificate on 3 September 1912. |
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287 | Edouard Baumann |
| | Gained Certificate on 3 September 1912. |
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288 | Lt. Philip Shepherd RN |
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| Gained Certificate
on 17 September 1912. |
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289 |
I.
G. Vaughan-Fowler |
| | Gained Certificate on 17 September 1912. |
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290 | Lt. Gilbert
Vernon Wildman-Lushington RMA |
| | Gained Certificate on 17 September 1912.
Died when the Maurice-Farman aircraft he was flying at Eastchurch side-slipped and crashed on Tuesday, 2 December 1913.
His passenger, Capt. Fawcett, RM, survived, suffering a broken collarbone. On the previous Saturday, Wildman-Lushington
had taken the then First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, for a series of three flying lessons in a Short Brothers
S.38 biplane, during the third of which Churchill took the controls for a time, making him the first serving Cabinet minister
to have flown an aeroplane. |
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291 |
John
Laurence Hall |
| | Gained Certificate on 17 September 1912 on a Bleriot Monoplane
at the Bleriot School, Hendon. John Laurence Hall was born in Sheffield 6 June 1891. |
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292 | Samuel Summerfield |
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Gained Certificate on 17 September 1912. |
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293 | 2nd Lt Edward Wallace Cheeseman RFC |
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| Gained Certificate
on 17 September 1912. A 2nd Lt in the Royal Flying Corps he used a Beatty-Wright biplane at the Beatty School, Cricklewood.
Died following a flying accident in South Africa 15 October 1913 |
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294 | Assistant Paymaster George Stanley Trewin RN |
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Gained Certificate on 17 September 1912. |
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295 | Ernest Frank Sutton |
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| Gained Certificate
on 17 September 1912. |
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296 |
Lt.
John Wilfred Seddon RN |
| | Gained Certificate on 17 September 1912. |
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297 | Harry George
Hawker |
| | Gained Certificate on 17 Sept.1912. |
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298 | Lt. A C Holms MacLean |
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Gained Certificate on 17 September 1912. |
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299 | Capt. Charles L. Price |
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| Gained Certificate
on 17 September 1912. |
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300 |
Lt.
G. B. Stopford RFA |
| | Gained Certificate on 17 September 1912. |