List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Royal Aero Club in 1912
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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
The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale is the world governing body for air sports and aeronautics and astronautics world records. Its head office is in Lausanne, Switzerland. This includes man-carrying aerospace vehicles from balloons to spacecraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles...
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 169 | 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... Garthshore Tindal Porter, R.A. Royal Artillery The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery , is the artillery arm of the British Army. Despite its name, it comprises a number of regiments.-History:... |
09 January 1912 | Used a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain. After service in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force died in 1957. |
| 170 | Lt. Amyas Eden Borton Amyas Borton Air Vice-Marshal Amyas Eden Borton CB, CMG, DSO, AFC was a pilot and commander in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the 1920s. He saw active service on the Western Front, in Palestine and in Iraq... (Black Watch) |
09 January 1912 | Used a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain, served with the Royal Flying Corps during the first world war and retired as an Air Vice-Marshal in 1933. |
| 171 | Benjamin Graham Wood | 09 January 1912 | Used a Hewlett and Blondeau Farman biplane at Brooklands. |
| 172 | Sydney Vincent Sippe Sydney Vincent Sippe Major Sydney Vincent Sippe DSO, OBE, FRAeS was a British pioneer aviator, who designed, built and tested early aeroplanes, and was a distinguished pilot in World War I.-Early life:... |
09 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. |
| 173 | Tom Garne | 16 January 1912 | Used a Bristol biplane at Brooklands. |
| 174 | Lt. Napier John Gill | 16 January 1912 | Author of "The Flyer's Guide: An Elementary Handbook for Aviators", 1917. |
| 175 | Frederick Bernard Fowler | 16 January 1912 | Founded the Eastbourne Aviation Company Eastbourne Aviation Company The Eastbourne Aviation Company was established by Major Bernard Fowler in 1909 on land between Eastbourne and Pevensey Bay. His original airfield lies under the present day industrial estate below St Anthony's Mount... ; in 1919, at the rank of Major, he was awarded the AFC (UK) Air Force Cross (United Kingdom) The Air Force Cross is a military decoration awarded to personnel of the United Kingdom Armed Forces, and formerly also to officers of the other Commonwealth countries, for "an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying, though not in active operations against the enemy"... . He was also a member of the 1921 Sempill Mission Sempill Mission The Sempill Mission was a British aeronaval technical mission led by Captain the Master of Sempill and sent to Japan in September 1921, with the objective of helping the Imperial Japanese Navy develop its aeronaval forces... to Japan, for which he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun (4th Class) Order of the Rising Sun The is a Japanese order, established in 1875 by Emperor Meiji of Japan. The Order was the first national decoration awarded by the Japanese Government, created on April 10, 1875 by decree of the Council of State. The badge features rays of sunlight from the rising sun... |
| 176 | Lt. Alan Geoffrey Fox, 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.... |
30 January 1912 | - |
| 177 | Lt. Eric Mackay Murray | 30 January 1912 | - |
| 178 | Giovanni Sabelli | 30 January 1912 | An Italian aviator used a Deperdussin Monoplane at Brooklands. |
| 179 | Frederick Warren Merriam | 06 February 1912 | - |
| 180 | William Bendall | 06 February 1912 | - |
| 181 | Eng. Lt. Charles Russell Jekyl Randall | 13 February 1912 | - |
| 182 | Capt. Thomas Weeding | 13 February 1912 | - |
| 183 | Damer Leslie Allen | 20 February 1912 | Disappeared while attempting to cross the Irish Channel from Holyhead Holyhead Holyhead is the largest town in the county of Anglesey in the North Wales. It is also a major port adjacent to the Irish Sea serving Ireland.... on 18 April 1912. |
| 184 | Sydney Parr | 20 February 1912 | - |
| 185 | Lt. Bertram Richard White Beor, R.F.A. Royal Field Artillery The Royal Field Artillery of the British Army provided artillery support for the British Army. It came into being when the Royal Artillery was divided on 1 July 1899, it was reamalgamated back into the Royal Artillery in 1924.... |
20 February 1912 | - |
| 186 | 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:... |
27 February 1912 | - |
| 187 | Lt. Stephen Christopher Winfield-Smith | 27 February 1912 | - |
| 188 | Lt. Cecil Thomas Carfrae, R.F.A. | 27 February 1912 | - |
| 189 | Herbert Dennis Cutler | 05 March 1912 | - |
| 190 | Victor Annesley Barrington-Kennett | 05 March 1912 | 2nd Lt in the London Balloon Corps used a Short biplane at Eastchurch. Killed in action flying a Bristol Scout Bristol Scout The Bristol Scout was a simple, single seat, rotary-engined biplane originally intended as a civilian racing aircraft. Like other similar fast, light aircraft of the period - it was acquired by the RNAS and the RFC as a "scout", or fast reconnaissance type... on 13 Mar 1916 in Flanders while serving as a Major and commanding officer of No. 4 Squadron Royal Flying Corps. |
| 191 | Lt. Clement Gordon Wakefield Head, R.N. Royal Navy The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service... |
05 March 1912 | - |
| 192 | Lt. Charles Longcroft Charles Longcroft Air Vice Marshal Sir Charles Alexander Holcombe Longcroft KCB, CMG, DSO, AFC was a pilot and squadron commander in the Royal Flying Corps who went on to become a senior commander in the Royal Air Force.-Early years:... |
05 March 1912 | RFC pilot, squaldron, wing and brigade commander during World War I. First Commandant of the RAF College Cranwell. |
| 193 | Cyril Wright Meredith | 05 March 1912 | - |
| 194 | Capt. Patrick Hamilton | 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". |
| 195 | Cecil J. L'Estrange Malone Cecil L'Estrange Malone Cecil John L'Estrange Malone was Britain's first communist member of the House of Commons.-Early years:Born in Dalton Holme, Yorkshire on 7 September 1890, a rector's son, he joined the Royal Navy in 1905 and attended the Royal Naval College at Devonport. In 1912 he learned to fly and gained his... |
12 March 1912 | Pioneer naval aviator and Britain's first communist Communist Party of Great Britain The Communist Party of Great Britain was the largest communist party in Great Britain, although it never became a mass party like those in France and Italy. It existed from 1920 to 1991.-Formation:... member of the House of Commons |
| 196 | Major George Hebden Raleigh, Essex Regiment | 12 March 1912 | Used a Bristol Monoplane at Brooklands, killed in action 21 January 1915 off Belgian Coast, flying a Vickers FB5 |
| 197 | Ronald Louis Charteris | 12 March 1912 | Used a Deperdussin Monoplane at Brooklands, an aeronautical engineer with the All British Engine Company ABC Motors ABC Motors Limited of Hersham, Surrey, England was a manufacturer of cars, aircraft, motor scooters, and engines for road and air. Established by Ronald Charteris in Hersham, Surrey in 1912, its chief designer was the young and talented Granville Bradshaw... . |
| 198 | George Prensiell | 19 March 1912 | A German engineer, used a Bleriot Monoplane at Hendon. |
| 199 | William Ewart Hart | 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. |
| 200 | Capt. Francis John Brodigan | 26 March 1912 | - |
| 201 | Lt. Alexander Ernest Burchardt-Ashton (4th Dragoon Guards) | 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 the 11 July 1916 as a Lance Corporal with the Royal Fusiliers. |
| 202 | Lt. F. A. P. Williams-Freeman, R.N. | 16 April 1912 | - |
| 203 | Com. O. Schwann Oliver Swann Air Vice Marshal Sir Oliver Swann KCB, CBE, RAF , born Oliver Schwann, was a leading figure in the Royal Naval Air Service and senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the first half of the 20th century.... |
16 April 1912 | - |
| 204 | Capt. P. W. L. Broke-Smith, R.E. | 16 April 1912 | Awarded Airship Pilot’s Certificate No. 2 on 14 Feb. 1911 |
| 205 | Lt. L. C. Rogers Harrison | 16 April 1912 | Killed in air crash in a Cody Biplane on 28 April 1913 at Farnborough |
| 206 | Sub.-Lt. C. H. K. Edmonds Charles Edmonds Air Vice-Marshal Charles Humphrey Kingsman Edmonds CBE DSO RAF was a decorated British naval aviator during World War I and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during World War II.... , R.N. |
16 April 1912 | Awarded the D.S.O. for his role 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... 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. |
| 207 | D. G. Young | 16 April 1912 | - |
| 208 | Lucien Alfred Tremlett | 30 April 1912 | Born in Paris in 1887 he took his certificate on a Bleriot Monoplane at Hendon. |
| 209 | Lt. John Dolben Mackworth | 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. |
| 210 | Lt. E. F. Chinnery | 30 April 1912 | - |
| 211 | John Robertson Duigan John Robertson Duigan John Robertson Duigan MC was an Australian pioneer aviator who built and flew the first Australian-made aircraft. Duigan was born in Terang, Victoria, and grew up in Melbourne attending Brighton Grammar School... |
30 April 1912 | - |
| 212 | Lt. H. C. Fielding | 30 April 1912 | - |
| 213 | Major Sir Alexander Bannerman, Bart. Sir Alexander Bannerman, 11th Baronet Major Sir Alexander Bannerman, 11th Baronet was a pioneer British military aviator.Bannerman was born in Brackley in Northamptonshire and educated at Wellington College... , R.E. |
30 April 1912 | - |
| 214 | Lt. Alan Hartree, R.F.A. | 14 May 1912 | - |
| 215 | Lt. Gordon Strachey Shephard | 14 May 1912 | Rose quickly to the rank of Brigadier-General at age 32; Commanding Officer of 1st Brigade R.F.C,, died 19 Jan. 1918, when his Nieuport Scout span into the ground. |
| 216 | Lt. Donald Swain Lewis, R.E. | 14 May 1912 | Died on an inspection flight in France in 1916. |
| 217 | Capt. Godfrey Paine Godfrey Paine Rear Admiral Sir Godfrey Marshall Paine KCB MVO was a senior commander in the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force in the early part of the 20th century... , R.N. |
14 May 1912 | First commandant of 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.... ; he attained the ranks of Major-General, Rear-Admiral and 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... , 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 |
| 218 | Henry Charles Biard | 04 June 1912 | - |
| 219 | Hugh Percy Nesham | 04 June 1912 | - |
| 220 | Charles Lindsay-Campbell | 04 June 1912 | Killed at Brooklands Brooklands Brooklands was a motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England. It opened in 1907, and was the world's first purpose-built motorsport venue, as well as one of Britain's first airfields... in a Bristol Bristol Aeroplane Company The Bristol Aeroplane Company, originally the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, was both one of the first and one of the most important British aviation companies, designing and manufacturing both airframes and aero engines... monoplane on 3 Aug. 1912 when the aircraft stalled after engine failure. |
| 221 | Francis Henry Fowler | 04 June 1912 | - |
| 222 | Thomas O'Brien Hubbard | 04 June 1912 | - |
| 223 | Montagu Righton Nevill Jennings | 04 June 1912 | - |
| 224 | Alphonse Potet | 04 June 1912 | A French mechanic used a Bleriot Monoplane at Hendon. |
| 225 | Richard Thomas Gates | 04 June 1912 | Former Yeomanary 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. |
| 226 | Lt. David Percival, R.G.A. Royal Garrison Artillery The Royal Garrison Artillery was an arm of the Royal Artillery that was originally tasked with manning the guns of the British Empire's forts and fortresses, including coastal artillery batteries, the heavy gun batteries attached to each infantry division, and the guns of the siege... |
04 June 1912 | - |
| 227 | 2nd.-Corporal Frank Ridd, R.E. | 04 June 1912 | Using a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain he becomes the first non-commissioned officer to become a pilot. |
| 228 | Lt. Leonard Dawes | 04 June 1912 | - |
| 229 | Lt. J. N. Fletcher, R.E. | 04 June 1912 | - |
| 230 | Lt. Baron Trevenen James, R.E. | 04 June 1912 | - |
| 231 | Marcus Dyce Manton | 04 June 1912 | - |
| 232 | Staff-Sergeant Richard H. V. Wilson, R.E. | 18 June 1912 | Died in a crash on Salisbury Plain 5 July 1912, in a Nieuport piloted by Eustace B. Loraine Eustace Loraine -See also:*List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft... . |
| 233 | Lt. Desmond L. Arthur Desmond Arthur Lieutenant Desmond Arthur was an Irish aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. Following his crash in Scotland's first fatal aircraft accident his name is connected to a ghost believed to haunt the airfield at RAF Montrose in Montrose, Angus, Scotland... |
18 June 1912 | Died on the morning of 27 May, 1913 at Montrose Montrose, Angus Montrose is a coastal resort town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. It is situated 38 miles north of Dundee between the mouths of the North and South Esk rivers... 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." |
| 234 | Lt. Ercole Ercole | 18 June 1912 | Italian Army aviator used a Bristol biplane at Larkhill, Salisbury Plain. |
| 235 | Paul Dubois | 18 June 1912 | - |
| 236 | Capt. John Harold Whitworth Becke | 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. |
| 237 | Norman S. Roupell | 18 June 1912 | - |
| 238 | Edward H. Morriss | 18 June 1912 | - |
| 239 | Capt. A. D. Carden | 18 June 1912 | - |
| 240 | Capt. Herbert Charles Agnew, R.E. | 02 July 1912 | - |
| 241 | Lionel Boyd Moss | 02 July 1912 | - |
| 242 | Capt. T. Ince Webb-Bowen Tom Webb-Bowen Air Vice-Marshal Sir Tom Ince Webb-Bowen KCB, CMG, RAF was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the first half of the 20th century.-RAF career:... |
02 July 1912 | - |
| 243 | Vivian Hugh Nicholas Wadham | 16 July 1912 | - |
| 244 | P. L. W. Herbert | 16 July 1912 | - |
| 245 | A. Christie | 16 July 1912 | - |
| 246 | H. I. Bulkely | 16 July 1912 | - |
| 247 | E. V. Anderson | 16 July 1912 | - |
| 248 | Ronald Hargrave Kershaw | 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. |
| 249 | K. R. Shaw | 16 July 1912 | - |
| 250 | R. A. Lister | 16 July 1912 | - |
| 251 | Harold Sweetman-Powell | 24 July 1912 | - |
| 252 | Lt. Hugh Lambert Reilly, 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... |
24 July 1912 | - |
| 253 | Air Mechanic William Victor Strugnell | 24 July 1912 | - |
| 254 | Lt. F. M. Worthington-Wilmer | 24 July 1912 | - |
| 255 | Capt. Robert C. W. Alston | 24 July 1912 | - |
| 256 | Lt. Claude Albemarle Bettington | 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. |
| 257 | Capt. Charles Darbyshire | 24 July 1912 | - |
| 258 | Robert William Rickerby Gill | 24 July 1912 | - |
| 259 | Edward Petre | 24 July 1912 | Brother of Henry A. Petre Henry Petre Henry Aloysius Petre DSO, MC was an English solicitor who became Australia's first military aviator, and a founding member of the Australian Flying Corps, predecessor of the Royal Australian Air Force... , holder of Aviator's Certificate no. 128; killed 24 December 1912 at Marske-by-the-Sea Marske-by-the-Sea Marske-by-the-Sea is a village in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.It is located on the coast, in an area sometimes referred to as East Cleveland, between the seaside resorts of Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea although it is not... , Yorkshire |
| 260 | Lt. Francis FitzGerald Waldron | 24 July 1912 | - |
| 261 | Herbert Rutter Simms | 24 July 1912 | Used an Avro Biplane at The Roe School, Brooklands. Killed in action as a Flight Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Air Service of the Belgian Coast 5 May 1916. |
| 262 | Pte. John Edmonds, R.M.L.I Royal Marines The Corps of Her Majesty's Royal Marines, commonly just referred to as the Royal Marines , are the marine corps and amphibious infantry of the United Kingdom and, along with the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary, form the Naval Service... |
30 July 1912 | - |
| 263 | Sidney Pickles | 30 July 1912 | - |
| 264 | Maj. John Frederick Andrews Higgins John Frederick Andrews Higgins Air Marshal Sir John Frederick Andrews Higgins KCB, KBE, DSO, AFC, RAF was a senior officer in the Royal Flying Corps and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force in the first half of the 20th century.-RAF career:... , R.F.A. |
30 July 1912 | - |
| 265 | Eng. Lt. Edward Featherstone Briggs, R.N. | 30 July 1912 | - |
| 266 | Capt. Charles Percy Nicholas, I.A. | 30 July 1912 | - |
| 267 | Lt. Kenlis Parcival Atkinson, R.F.A. | 30 July 1912 | - |
| 268 | Ralph Gerald Holyoake | 13 Aug. 1912 | - |
| 269 | Air Mechanic William Thomas James McCudden | 13 Aug. 1912 | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Army School, Salisbury Plain. He was the elder brother of James McCudden James McCudden James Thomas Byford McCudden VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar, MM was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for valour in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces... VC 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.... . Died when his Bleriot had engine trouble on 1 May 1915 at Fort Grange. |
| 270 | Maj. Hugh Montague Trenchard Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard GCB OM GCVO DSO was a British officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Air Force... |
13 Aug. 1912 | Later to command the Royal Flying Corps in France and serve as first Chief of the Air Staff |
| 271 | Lt. Reginald Cholmondeley | 13 Aug. 1912 | - |
| 272 | Capt. John Maitland Salmond John Salmond Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Maitland Salmond, GCB, CMG, CVO, DSO and Bar was a British military officer who rose to high rank in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I... |
13 Aug. 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. |
| 273 | Capt. Alister Maxwell MacDonell | 13 Aug. 1912 | - |
| 274 | William Snowdon Hedley | 13 Aug. 1912 | - |
| 275 | William John Harrison | 13 Aug. 1912 | - |
| 276 | Staff-Sergeant William Thomas | 3 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 277 | Capt. Robert Harry Lucas Cordner, R.A.M.C. | 3 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 278 | Richard Harold Barnwell Harold Barnwell Harold Barnwell was an aircraft pioneer. He was born in Lewisham, Kent, the son of Richard Barnwell, a director of the Clyde shipbuilder, Fairfields. Barnwell was brought up at Elcho House in Balfron, Stirlingshire, and educated Fettes College in Edinburgh... |
3 Sept. 1912 | Brother of Frank Barnwell Frank Barnwell Captain Frank Sowter Barnwell OBE AFC FRAeS BSc was an aeronautical engineer, who performed the first powered flight in Scotland and later went on to a career as an aircraft designer.-History:... . Became a test pilot for Vickers, killed testing the Vickers F.B.26 |
| 279 | Capt. The Hon. Claude Brabazon | 3 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 280 | Lt. 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:... , R.F.A |
3 Sept.1912 | - |
| 281 | Maj. Edward Bailey Ashmore Edward Ashmore (British Army officer) Major General Edward Bailey Ashmore CB, CMG, MVO was a British Army officer from the 1890s to the 1920s who served in the Royal Artillery, the Royal Flying Corps and briefly in the Royal Air Force before founding and developing the organisation that would become the Royal Observer Corps.-Early... , M.V.O., R.F.A. |
3 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 282 | Lt. Claude Grenville Shephard Gould, R.G.A. | 3 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 283 | Lt. Patrick Henry Lyon Playfair Patrick Playfair Air Marshal Sir Patrick Henry Lyon Playfair KBE CB CVO MC RAF was a commander in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force until his retirement during World War II.... , R.F.A. |
3 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 284 | Lt. F. A. Wanklyn, R.F.A. | 3 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 285 | Walter Laurence Brock | 3 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 286 | Thomas O'Connor, Engine-room Artificer, R.N. | 3 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 287 | Edouard Baumann | 3 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 288 | Lt. Philip Shepherd, R.N. | 17 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 289 | I. G. Vaughan-Fowler | 17 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 290 | Lt. Gilbert Vernon Wildman-Lushington, R.M.A. | 17 Sept. 1912 | Died when the Maurice-Farman aircraft he was flying at Eastchurch Eastchurch Eastchurch is a village on the Isle of Sheppey, in the English county of Kent, two miles east of Minster.The village website claims "... it has a history steeped in stories of piracy and smugglers".- Aviation history :... side-slipped and crashed on Tuesday, 2 December 1913. His passenger, Capt. Fawcett, R.M., survived, suffering a broken collarbone. On the previous Saturday, Wildman-Lushington had taken the then First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice... , for a series of three flying lessons in a Short Brothers Short Brothers Short Brothers plc is a British aerospace company, usually referred to simply as Shorts, that is now based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Founded in 1908, Shorts was the first company in the world to make production aircraft and was a manufacturer of flying boats during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s... 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. |
| 291 | John Laurence Hall | 17 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 292 | Samuel Summerfield | 17 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 293 | 2nd Lt Edward Wallace Cheeseman RFC | 17 Sept. 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 |
| 294 | Assistant Paymaster George Stanley Trewin, R.N. | 17 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 295 | Ernest Frank Sutton | 17 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 296 | Lt. John Wilfred Seddon, R.N. | 17 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 297 | Harry George Hawker Harry Hawker Harry George Hawker MBE, AFC, was an Australian aviation pioneer and co-founder of Hawker Aircraft, the firm that would later be responsible for a long series of successful military aircraft.-Early life:... |
17 Sept.1912 | - |
| 298 | Lt. A C Holms MacLean Archibald MacLean Archibald Campbell Holms MacLean CBE RAF was an officer in the Royal Scots, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force.MacLean attended the Royal Military College Sandhurst before he was commissioned into the Royal Scots... |
17 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 299 | Capt. Charles L. Price | 17 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 300 | Lt. G. B. Stopford, R.F.A. | 17 Sept. 1912 | - |
| 301 | Geoffrey W. England | 17 Sept. 1912 | Died on 5 March 1913 when the Bristol Monoplane he was testing suffered a structural failure of the port wing, causing the aircraft to dive into the ground. |
| 302 | Vivian Hewitt | 1 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 303 | Capt. Charles Erskine Risk, R.M.L.I. | 1 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 304 | Lt. Ivon Terence Courtney, R.M.L.I. | 1 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 305 | Capt. Edward Leonard Ellington Edward Leonard Ellington Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Edward Leonard Ellington GCB, CMG, CBE was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force... |
1 Oct. 1912 | Later Marshal of the Royal Air Force Marshal of the Royal Air Force Marshal of the Royal Air Force is the highest rank in the Royal Air Force. In peacetime it was granted to RAF officers in the appointment of Chief of the Defence Staff, and to retired Chiefs of the Air Staff, who were promoted to it on their last day of service. Promotions to the rank have ceased... |
| 306 | Victor Yates | 1 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 307 | Lt. Hugh Fanshawe Glanville, West India Regiment West India Regiment The West India Regiment was an infantry unit of the British Army recruited from and normally stationed in the British colonies of the Caribbean between 1795 and 1927. The regiment differed from similar forces raised in other parts of the British Empire in that it formed an integral part of the... |
1 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 308 | Lt. Leslie Da Costa Penn-Gaskell, 3rd Norfolk Regiment | 1 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 309 | Capt. Herbert Creagh MacDonnell, The Royal Irish Regiment | 1 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 310 | Arthur Edward Geere | 1 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 311 | 2nd Lt. Dermot Roberts Hanlon, R.G.A. | 1 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 312 | Lt. Felton Vesey Holt Felton Holt Air Vice Marshal Felton Vesey Holt CMG, DSO, RAF was a squadron and wing commander in the Royal Flying Corps who became a brigadier general in the newly established Royal Air Force just before the end of World War I... |
1 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 313 | Capt. George Ralph Miller, R.F.A. | 1 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 314 | A. M. Wynne | 15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 315 | John Herbert James | 15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 316 | Lt. G. I. Carmichael, R.F.A. | 15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 317 | Victor Colin Higginbottom | 15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 318 | 2nd Lt. D. L. Allen, 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers Royal Irish Fusiliers The Royal Irish Fusiliers was an Irish infantry regiment of the British Army, formed by the amalgamation of the 87th Regiment of Foot and the 89th Regiment of Foot in 1881. The regiment's first title in 1881 was Princess Victoria's , changed in 1920 to The Royal Irish Fusiliers... |
15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 319 | Lt. L. Loultcheff, Bulgarian Army | 15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 320 | Lt. R. G. H. Murray, 9th 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... |
15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 321 | Dr. David Edmund Stodart | 15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 322 | Edward Birch | 15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 323 | W. L. Hardman | 15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 324 | Rudolph Holscher | 15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 325 | E. N. Fuller | 15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 326 | A. V. Bettington | 15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 327 | R. S. H. Grace, Captain. 13th Hussars | 15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 328 | Lt, C. L. Courtney Christopher Courtney Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Lloyd Courtney, GBE, KCB, DSO was a senior British Royal Air Force officer.-RAF career:Courtney joined the Royal Navy in May 1905 as a midshipman at Britannia Naval College... , R.N. |
15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 329 | C. W. Wilson | 15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 330 | Paymaster Eustace R. Berne, R.N. | 15 Oct. 1912 | E.R.Berne died on 21 April 1913 on the ground at Eastchurch, when an aircraft with Gilbert. V. Wildman-Lushington (see #290 above) at the controls suddenly ran forward, knocking him down and catching his legs with the propeller Propeller (aircraft) Aircraft propellers or airscrews convert rotary motion from piston engines or turboprops to provide propulsive force. They may be fixed or variable pitch. Early aircraft propellers were carved by hand from solid or laminated wood with later propellers being constructed from metal... . Berne died from loss of blood and shock two and a half hours after the accident. |
| 331 | Howard T. Wright | 15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 332 | Harold Wesley Hall | 15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 333 | Albert Deakin R.N. | 15 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 334 | Boatswain Henry C. Bobbett, R.N. | 19 Oct. 1912 | - |
| 335 | Capt. Robert Boger, R.E. | 22 Oct. 1912 | |
| 336 | Lt. A. M. Read, 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... |
22 Oct. 1912> | |
| 337 | Arthur Payze | 22 Oct. 1912 | |
| 338 | Lt. Frederick Ernest Styles, 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... |
22 Oct. 1912 | |
| 339 | Norman Channing Spratt | 22 Oct. 1912 | |
| 340 | Capt. J. A. Chamier John Adrian Chamier Air Commodore Sir John Adrian Chamier CB, CMG, DSO, OBE also known as "The Founding Father of the ATC" for his role in the foundation of the Air Training Corps, was born in 1883.-Royal Air Force:... 33rd Punjabis 33rd Punjabis The 33rd Punjabis was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1857, as the Allahabad Levy. It was designated as the 33rd Punjabis in 1903 and became 3rd Battalion 16th Punjab Regiment in 1922... |
22 Oct. 1912 | |
| 341 | 2nd Lt. G. F. Pretyman, 1st Somerset Light Infantry | 22 Oct. 1912 | |
| 342 | Lt. E. L. Conran 2nd County London Yeomanry | 22 Oct. 1912 | |
| 343 | Lt. F. G. Small Connaught Rangers | 22 Oct. 1912 | |
| 344 | Henry Howard James | 22 Oct. 1912 | |
| 345 | Commander Alan Montagu Yeats Brown, R.N. | 22 Oct. 1912 | |
| 346 | Capt. J. H. Gibbon, R.F.A. | 29 Oct. 1912 | |
| 347 | Lt. G. A. Parker, 3rd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment | 29 Oct. 1912 | |
| 348 | Capt. James Lancaster Lucena R.F.R.A. | 29 Oct. 1912 | |
| 349 | Cyril Edgar Foggin | 29 Oct. 1912 | |
| 350 | Emile Louis Gassier | 29 Oct. 1912 | |
| 351 | Capt. Frederick St. George Tucker The Worcestershire Regiment | 29 Oct. 1912 | |
| 352 | Capt. Robert Pigot Rifle Brigade | 29 Oct. 1912 | |
| 353 | Tom Grave | 29 Oct. 1912 | |
| 354 | Capt. John Crosby Halahan, late Royal Dublin Fusiliers | 29 Oct. 1912 | |
| 355 | Denys Charles Ware | 29 Oct. 1912 | |
| 356 | Capt. Oliver de Lancey Williams 2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers | 12 Nov. 1912 | |
| 357 | Capt. Herbert Musgrave, R.E. | 12 Nov. 1912 | |
| 358 | Lt. Hon. John David Boyle, Rifle Brigade | 12 Nov. 1912 | |
| 359 | Frank William Lerwill | 12 Nov. 1912 | |
| 360 | Lt. John F. A. Trotter, R.F.R.A. | 12 Nov. 1912 | |
| 361 | Leading Seaman Herbert Rusell, R.N. | 12 Nov. 1912 | |
| 362 | Lt. Reginald M. Rodwell, 1st West Yorkshire Regiment | 12 Nov. 1912 | |
| 363 | Capt. Frederick George Kunhardt, 74th Punjabis 74th Punjabis The 74th Punjabis were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1776, when they were raised as the 14th Carnatic Battalion.... |
12 Nov. 1912 | |
| 364 | Maj. Arthur Baron Forman, R.F.A. | 12 Nov. 1912 | |
| 365 | Lt. Richard B. Kitson, 58th Rifles F.F., I.A. | 12 Nov. 1912 | |
| 366 | Lt. Colin George MacArthur, R.N. | 26 Nov. 1912 | |
| 367 | Prince Serge Cantacuzène | 26 Nov. 1912 | |
| 368 | John Alcock | 26 Nov. 1912 | With Arthur Whitten Brown Arthur Whitten Brown Sir Arthur Whitten Brown KBE was the navigator of the first successful non-stop transatlantic flight.-Life and work:... , first to fly across the Atlantic non-stop. |
| 369 | Lt. Arthur Henry Leslie Soames, 3rd The King's Own Hussars 3rd The King's Own Hussars The 3rd Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1685. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated into The Queen's Own Hussars in 1958.-The Glorious Revolution:... |
26 Nov. 1912 | - |
| 370 | Midshipman Noel F. Wheeler, R.N. | 17 Dec. 1912 | - |
| 371 | Pierre Gratien (French Subject) | 17 Dec. 1912 | - |
| 372 | Joseph Claude Andrews (Petty Officer, R.N.) | 17 Dec. 1912 | - |
| 373 | Capt. John Nowell Stanhope Sunt (5th Dragoon Guards) | 17 Dec. 1912 | - |
| 374 | Robert W. Edwards (Shipwright, R.N.) | 17 Dec. 1912 | - |
| 375 | 2nd Lt. William C. K. Birch (Yorkshire Regiment) | 17 Dec. 1912 | - |
| 376 | Vincent Patrick Taylor | 17 Dec. 1912 | Born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1874 he took his certificate on a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Salisbury Plain. He later performed balloon and parachute stunts around Australia using the name "Captain Taylor Penfold". He died in 1930. |
| 377 | Lt. Reginald Mills (Royal Fusiliers) | 17 Dec. 1912 | - |
| 378 | Lt. Edward R. L. Corballis (Royal Dublin Fusiliers) | 17 Dec. 1912 | - |
| 379 | Lt. Robert Valentine Pollok (15th Hussars) | 17 Dec. 1912 | - |
| 380 | Frank Susans (Engine Room Artificer, R.N.) | 17 Dec. 1912 | - |
| 381 | George Prickett (Leading Seaman, R.N.) | 17 Dec. 1912 | - |
| 382 | Sub.-Lt. G. W. W. Hooper, R.N. | 17 Dec. 1912 | - |