List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Royal Aero Club in 1913
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List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Royal Aero Club in 1913

Section Title: List
Table Section Text: Legend

No.	Name	Date	Comment

383	Lt. 'Georges Negresco': lt. av. Gheorghe Negrescu	7 January 1913	(1887-1977) locotenentul aviator. 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 flight of World War I from Maubeuge, Belgium on 19 August 1914.

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 RN	7 January 1913	Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands

389	Capt. David Watson Powell, Northamptonshire Regiment	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	7 January 1913

392	Lt. Lionel W. B. Rees RGA	7 January 1913	Rees was later awarded the Victoria Cross flying the De Havilland DH.2.

393	Engine Room Artificer Sidney T. Freeman RN	21 January 1913

394	Leading Seaman Bernard John William Brady RN	21 January 1913

395	Leading Seaman Arthur John Bateman RN	21 January 1913

396	Sub.-Lt. Arthur Wellesley Bigsworth RNR	21 January 1913	Awarded the D.S.O. for an attack on a Zeppelin on 17 May 1915 and a bar to his D.S.O.

397	Lt. F W Bowhill RN	21 January 1913	Later air chief marshal.

398	Lt. Alexander Claud Garden Brown RN	21 January 1913	1890-1919 Bristol Biplane at Eastbourne, later Royal Air Force. Died of wounds 6 May 1918 in France while serving with 48 Squadron RAF, had been wounded on a reconnaissance flight on 3 May 1918.

399	Lt. Alexander Shekleton, Royal Munster Fusiliers	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 RN	21 January 1913

403	Sub.-Lt. Reginald Leonard George Marix RNVR	21 January 1913	(1889–1966) Royal Naval Air Service, later Royal Air Force where he reached the rank of Air Vice Marshal. The first aviator to destroy a Zeppelin from an aircraft in 1914.

404	Lt. If. D. Vernon RN	21 January 1913

405	Sub. Lt. H. A. Littleton RNVR	21 January 1913

406	A. L. Russell	21 January 1913

407	Evelyn Ronald Whitehouse	21 January 1913	1894-1979 Deperdussin Monoplane at Hendon, later Royal Naval Air Service then Royal Air Force.

408	Lt. J. T. Babington RN	21 January 1913	One of three Avro 504A pilots who carried out the bombing raid on the Zeppelin Base at Friedrichshafen on 21 November 1914.

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 RAMC	4 February 1913

415	Assistant Paymaster E. B. Parker RN	18 February 1913

416	Lt. M. W. Noel	18 February 1913

417	2nd-Lt. R. M. Vaughan, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers	18 February 1913

418	Harold Thomas Gardiner Lane	18 February 1913	1891-1919 Bristol Biplane at Brooklands

419	Frederick Frank Reilly Minchin	18 February 1913	1890-1927 Bristol Biplane at Eastbourne, disappeared in 1927 over the Atlantic Ocean in Fokker F.VIIa St. Raphael.

420	J. Crawford Kehrmann	18 February 1913

421	Capt. William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond RFA	18 February 1913

422	Lt. R. P. Ross RN	18 February 1913

423	Lt. James Robert Branch Kennedy RN	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's Accident Investigation Committee's Report N.

425	Lt. D. A. Oliver RN	18 February 1913

426	Lt. Thomas Scholes Creswell RMLI	18 February 1913	Lt. Creswell died, together with his passenger, Commander Rice, near Calshot when his seaplane (RNAS Serial no.

427	Lt. L. L. MacLean, 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 RFA	4 March 1913

435	2nd Lt. Lanoe Hawker RE	4 March 1913	Awarded Victoria Cross for engaging three German aircraft on 25 July 1915. Killed in dogfight with Manfred von Richthofen on 23 November 1916.

436	2nd Lt. D. J. McMullen RE	4 March 1913

437	Lt. C. E. H. Rathborne RMLI	4 March 1913	Later air commodore

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 RE	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 RN	1 April 1913

447	Lt. Raymond Fitzmaurice RN	1 April 1913

448	Lt. W. F. Robertson Dobie	1 April 1913

449	Cmdr. Neville Usborne RNAS	1 April 1913	Used a Caudron Biplane at the Ewen School, Hendon. Died 21 February 1916 in an early parasite fighter experiment

450	Lt. Guy Blatherwick RN	1 April 1913

451	Lt. Wilfrid Picton-Warlow	1 April 1913	(1888–1914) Served with the Royal Flying Corps, killed in a flying accident on 20 December 1914 in a Blériot while returning home on leave from France to England.

452	Arthur B. Ashford Thomson	1 April 1913

453	Engine Room Artificer Herbert Hackney RN	31 March 1913

454	Capt. G. W. Vivian RN	31 March 1913

455	Leading Seaman G. R. Athlon	1 April 1913

456	Sgt. H. C. Wright RFC	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 RNVR	22 April 1913	Later air chief marshal.

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 Aerodrome.

463	2nd Lt. W. R. Read, KDG	12 Apr 1913

464	Sgt. Harold Victor Robbins	22 April 1913

465	Shipwright D. Shaw RN	23 April 1913

466	H. C. Tower	23 April 1913

467	Sgt. William Robert Bruce	23 April 1913

468	Com. Francis Rowland Scarlett RN	24 April 1913	First commandant of the RAF's No. 1 School of Technical Training

469	Lt. Francis John Leslie Cogan RFA	30 April 1913

470	2nd Lt. Roger Marshall RFA (Reserve)	30 April 1913

471	2nd Lt. Montagu Reaney Chidson RGA	30 April 1913

472	2nd Lt. Cyril Cordon Hosking RFA	30 April 1913

473	Harry Stewart	30 April 1913

474	Thomas Alfred Rainey	30 May 1913

475	Sgt. 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 RN	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, 1st Highland Light Infantry	17 May 1913	Became Air Chief Marshal and was the first RAF officer to hold the post of Black Rod.

484	Major George Charleton Merrick RGA	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.

485	Rene Louis Desoutter	19 May 1913	Brother of Marcel Desoutter

486	Lt. Greville Edward Gordon McClellan, Worcestershire Regiment	20 May 1913

487	Manuel Zubiaga	20 May 1913

488	Tone Hippolyte Bayetto	22 May 1913	(1892–1918) Blériot Monoplane at the Grahame-White School, Hendon. An engineer who later joined the Royal Flying Corps as a Sergeant pilot, commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1916.

489	Shipwright Charles Victor Lacey RN	23 May 1913

490	Staff-Surgeon Hardy Vesey Wells RN	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 RN	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 RM	29 May 1913

498	Lt. Ambrose Gratton Power, Royal Munster Fusiliers	2 June 1913

499	Lt. Malcolm Wallace Duncan RA	2 June 1913

500	Assistant-Paymaster Charles Robert Finch Noyes RN	29 May 1913

501	Lt. H.D. Harvey-Kelly, Royal Irish Regt.	30 May 1913	First RFC pilot to land in France in the First World War. Shot down by Kurt Wolff and died of wounds in April 1917

502	Naval Shipwright George Thomas Harvey Pack	2 June 1913

503	Lt. Arthur Bruce Gaskell RN	2 June 1913

504	Reginald Hugh Carr	2 June 1913

505	Lt. William George Sitwell RN	3 June 1913

506	Frank Widenham Goodden	3 June 1913	(1889–1917) Major in the Royal Flying Corps, died testing a prototype Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 at Farnbrough on 28 January 1917.

507	Frank Hudson	3 June 1913

508	Capt. George Marshall Griffith RGA	3 June 1913

509	Capt. Henry Fawcett RMLI	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 RN	13 June 1913

513	George Lancelot Gipps	13 June 1913	In 1914 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.

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 QMO Hussars	13 June 1913

518	Lt. Edward Overend Priestley RN	14 June 1913

519	Sgt.-Maj. Albert Fletcher	1 July 1913	Later Air Commodore in the RAF

520	Sgt.-Maj. Arthur Harold Measures	16 June 1913

521	Lt. George Hugh Vaus Hathorn RMLI	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 RFA	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 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	21 June 1913	Romanian

529	Lt. C. E. Maude RN	26 June 1913

530	Capt. Henry Hammond Shott DSO	30 June 1913	Awarded Distinguished Service Order for his services in South Africa during the Second Boer War.

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 RN	25 June 1913	Awarded the Victoria Cross for an attack on the Bolshevik cruiser Oleg in Kronstadt harbour while in command of HM Coastal Motor Boat 4 on 17 June 1919.

534	Lt. Arnold John Miley RN	1 July 1913

535	2nd Lt. Ronald Falshaw Morkill, Special Reserve	1 July 1913

536	Lt. Edward Osmond RN	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 RMLI	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	4 July 1913	Romanian

543	Lt. Alexandru Pascanu	4 July 1913	Romanian

544	Thomas Wilfrid Elsdon	8 July 1913

545	Graham Elesmere Harris	8 July 1913

546	Sir Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, Bt.	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 Regiment	10 July 1913	Later air commodore, RAF.

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	1st Class Air-Mechanic Charles R. Gallie	12 July 1913

560	Hans Rolshoven	14 July 1913	WWI 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 VC	16 July 1913

562	Lt. Gordon Stuart Low RGA	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 RNR	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 IA	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	5 August 1913

576	Maxime Leverrier	7 August 1913

577	Leonhard Hubert Jagenberg	9 August 1913

578	S. J. V. Fill	3 August 1913

579	1st Class Air-Mechanic William Smith	5 August 1913

580	1st Class Air-Mechanic Frederick Dismore	5 August 1913

581	Frank Myles Temple Reilly	5 August 1913

582	Engine Room Artificer P. H. McCartan	6 August 1913

583	Sgt.-Major Albert Levick	8 August 1913

584	R. E. C. Penny	9 August 1913

585	2nd Lt. Joseph Frederick Mead, Royal Fusiliers	11 August 1913

586	Shipwright William Cole	13 August 1913

587	Capt. Henry Cholmondeley Jackson, Bedfordshire Regiment	13 August 1913

588	Hereward de Havilland	13 August 1913

589	Lt. Napier Charles Gordon Cameron, H.M. Land Forces	13 August 1913

590	Surgeon Frederick George Hitch RN	14 August 1913

591	Donald William Clappen	15 August 1913

592	Lt. Charles Curtis Darley RA	15 August 1913

593	Gordon Tsoe Kwong Wong	15 August 1913	Chinese subject

594	Engine Room Artificer William Fleetwood Shaw	15 August 1913

595	Capt. Lewis Pugh Evans, Black Watch	20 August 1913

596	Richard Crofts Powell	20 August 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 August 1913

598	Henry Webb	20 August 1913

599	Capt. Cyril Francis Murphy, 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment	20 August 1913

600	Second Lt. Oswyn George William Gifford Lywood	21 August 1913	Air Vice-Marshal during World War II.

601	Petty Officer James Claud Hendry RN	20 August 1913

602	Second Lt. B. M. B. Bateman RFA	26 August 1913

603	Lt. W. R. Crocker RN	28 August 1913

604	Sgt. F. E. Bishop RMA	28 August 1913

605	Lt. Lord George Wellesley, Grenadier Guards	28 August 1913

606	Lt. S. W. Smith, RFA (SR)	29 August 1913

607	Second Lt. Lord E. A. Grosvenor, H.M. Land Forces	29 August 1913

608	Capt. Cyril Percy Downer, Northants Regt.	29 August 1913	Died 10 March 1914 in an accident on Salisbury Plain while flying Vickers-built B.E.2 biplane no. 453 from the Central Flying School at RAF Upavon.

609	Capt. L. E. O. Charlton, Lancashire Fusiliers	29 August 1913

610	J. C. Joubert de la Ferté	29 August 1913

611	Armourer's Mate Rowland Harper RN	29 August 1913

612	Capt. B. D. Fisher, 17th Lancers	30 August 1913

613	The Hon. F. W. L. Vernon	30 August 1913

614	Joseph James Bland	30 August 1913	(Hydro-aeroplane)

615	2nd Lt. Howard Bertie Strong, Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment	3 September 1913

616	John William Wilfred Slack	8 September 1913

617	Vivian Gaskell Blackburn	10 September 1913

618	Walter Hugh Stewart Garnett	10 September 1913

619	2nd Lt. Lambert Playfair, Royal Scots	11 September 1913

620	Lt. Nevile Morris Jenkins RA	11 September 1913

621	Lt. Hyacinth Joseph Albert Roche, Royal Munster Fusiliers	12 September 1913

622	Capt. Arthur James Ellis, South Wales Borderers	12 September 1913

623	Lt. Jack Armand Cuningham RFA	12 September 1913

624	Cecil Le de Spencer Wynne Roberts	12 September 1913

625	Francis Knox Haskins RN	13 September 1913

626	Colin Layzell-Apps	13 September 1913

627	Lt. Reginald John Bone RN	16 August 1913

628	Carpenter Warrant Officer Leonard Rupert Staddon	12 September 1913

629	Frederic George Bevis	13 September 1913

630	Engineer-Lt. Gerald West Storey Aldwell RN	15 September 1913

631	Engine Room Artificer Albert Edward Case	17 September 1913

632	Noel Pemberton Billing	17 September 1913

633	Wilfrid Watts	17 September 1913

634	Edward John Addis	17 September 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 RE	22 September 1913

636	Petty Officer Frederick James Hooper	22 September 1913

637	E.R.A. Vivian Rees	27 September 1913

638	Capt. Geoffrey Henry Cox, SR	27 September 1913

639	Frank Bernard Halford	2 October 1913	(1894–1955) after service with the Royal Flying Corps became an aero-engine designer and chairman and technical director of de Havilland engines.

640	E. R. A. William Badley	3 October 1913

641	Sir Bryan B. M. Leighton, Bt.	3 October 1913	Born 26 November 1868. Of Loton Park, Shropshire.

642	Carpenter Michael Sullivan Keogh RN	4 October 1913

643	Ivan Beauclerk Hart-Davies	6 October 1913

644	Capt. George Henderson IA	7 October 1913

645	Lt. Roger Montague Boger RFA	8 October 1913

646	Christopher Draper	9 October 1913

647	Lt. Ennis Tristram Ratcliffe Chambers RN	9 October 1913

648	Lt. Gerard Lowndes Edward Sherlock, 3rd The King's Own Hussars	9 October 1913

649	Lt. Charles Bennett Spence RFA	13 October 1913

650	Willy Voigt	15 October 1913

651	Lt. Eric Roper-Curzon Nanson RNR	15 October 1913

652	Capt. Herbert Creagh Jenings, 5th Royal Irish Lancers	16 October 1913

653	Capt. Thomas Couper Mudie, Royal Scots	16 October 1913

654	Eng.-Lt. Charles Dempster Breese RN	16 October 1913

655	Leonard Cameron Kidd	22 October 1913

656	Assistant-Paymaster Vyvian Harcourt Coles RNR	22 October 1913	Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Missing in Action 21 August 1918 after the Q-ship HMS Vala was sunk by U-Boat UB-54.

657	Capt. Gerald Charles Balfour Buckland, 8th Gurkha Rifles, IA	22 October1913	Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain.

658	James William Humphrys Scotland	23 October 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.

659	Major Gerald Richard Vivian Kinsman RFA	24 October 1913	Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Awarded a Distinguished Service Order and appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for his service during the First World War, died in 1963.

660	Reginald Kirshaw Pierson BSc	24 October 1913	An engineer, used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Became chief designer at Vickers, designs include the Vimy and the Wellington.

661	Maurice Bernal Blake	24 October 1913	Born in Ireland the son of Henry Arthur Blake, he is described as an equerry to Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein.

662	Lt. Alexander Gallaher, 4th Dragoon Guards	24 October 1913	Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain.

663	Lt. Keith Frederick William Dunn RFA	24 October 1913	Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain.

664	Lt. Charles Herbert Oxlade RNR	25 October 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 RM	27 October 1913	Used a Caudron Biplane at the Ewen School, Hendon. Killed in action Gallipoli 13 June 1915.

666	Lt. Charles Herbert Collet RMA	21 October 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.

667	Capt. Cecil Francis Kilner RMLI	22 October 1913	Used a B.E. Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.

668	Ordinary Telegraphist Robert Millar Stirling RN	22 October 1913	Used a Bristol Biplane at the Naval School, Eastchurch.

669	Warrant Officer Artificer Engineer William Foster Floyd RN	24 October 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 October 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 October 1913	Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands. Served on the western front in the First World War 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.

672	Petty Officer James Fraser Grady RN	1 November 1913	Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.

673	1st Air Mechanic William Hedley Butt RFC	1 November 1913	Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.

674	1st Air Mechanic Ernest Edward Copper RFC	1 November 1913.	Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.

675	Engine Room Artificer Hugh Nelson RN	1 November 1913	Used a Bristol Biplane at the Naval School, Eastchurch.

676	Lt. de Courcy Wyndor Plunkett Ireland RN	1 November 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, Kent.

677	Sgt. David Patterson RFC	4 November 1913	Used a Short Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.

678	2nd Lt. George John Malcolm RA	5 November 1913	Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Killed in action in France 9 Jul 1916 flying with 20 Squadron RFC.

679	Capt. Thomas Hugh Colville Frankland, Royal Dublin Fusiliers	5 November1913	Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Killed in action at Gallipoli 25 April 1915.

680	2nd Lt. Sydney Harry Batty-Smith, 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regt.	5 November 1913	Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. He was the Aide-de-camp to the Governor of Hong Kong when he was killed 12 February 1945 and buried at Stanley Military Cemetery.

681	Sub-Lt. John Douglas Harvey RN	6 November 1913	Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands.

682	2nd Lt. Marcus Winslow Huish RFA	8 November 1913	Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain.

683	Acting-Lt. Rupert Healey Walley RNR	21 October 1913	Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.

684	Chief-Armourer Charles Hart Whitlock RN	1 November 1913	Used a Bristol Biplane at the Naval School, Eastchurch.

685	Sgt. Fred Farrer RFC	7 November 1913	Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.

686	Lt. The Hon. Herbert Lyttelton Pelham, 2nd Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment.	11 November 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 November 1913	Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands. Died 19 March 1914 at Salisbury Plain.

688	2nd Lt. William Ralph Elliot Harrison RFA	21 November 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 November 1913	Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain.

690	Lt. Robert John Ferguson Barton, Royal Scots Fusiliers	24 November 1913	Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands.

691	Sgt. James McCrae, RFC(MW)	24 November 1913	Used a Short Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.

692	Shipwright Henry Herbert Scott RN	24 November 1913	Used a Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.

693	Capt. Daniel Harrison Macdonell DSO	25 November 1913	A captain in the Northern Nigeria Regiment used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Won the DSO 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 November 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 he shot down a "Fokker" on 1 November 1914.

695	Lt. Cedric Yeats McDonald, Seaforth Highlanders	27 November 1913	Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands.

696	2nd Lt. Gerald Henry Broadhurst RFA	29 November 1913	Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands. Missing in action in Flanders 8 May 1915.

697	Owen Bulmer Howell	29 November 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 December 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 December 1913	Swedish aviator used a Grahame-White Biplane at the Grahame-White School, Hendon.

700	Capt. Maurice George Lee, 40th Pathans, IA	8. December 1913	New Zealand-born aviator used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands.

701	Sgt. Duncan Mitchell RFC	11. December 1913	Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.

702	Capt. Basil Henri Louis Hay	11. December 1913	Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School at Salisbury Plain and Brooklands.

703	Harold Richard Johnson	11. December 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.

704	Norman Howarth	11. December 1913	Described as an engineer used a Grahame-White Biplane at the Grahame-White School, Hendon.

705	Second Lt. Thomas Leonard Stanley Holbrow RE	13. December 1913	Used a Caudron Biplane at the Ewen School, Hendon. Killed in action in France 28 March 1918.

706	William Henry Elliott	22 November 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 December 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 December 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 December 1913	Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands.

711	Capt. Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding RA	20 December 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 during the Battle of Britain.

712	Sgt. Frederick George Bateman RFC	20 December 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 December 1913	Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands. Died in Belgium 4 April 1916 aged 25.

714	Sub-Lt. Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet RN	22 December 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 until 1952, he died in 1983.

715	Lt. Rowland Edward Brian Hunt	22 December 1913	Used an EAC Biplane at the Eastbourne Aviation School. Eastbourne.

716	Lt. Edmund Digby Maxwell Robertson RN	22 December 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 in 1919.

717	Andrew Delfosse Badgery	22 December 1913	Australian-born aviator used a Caudron Biplane at the Ewen School, Hendon. Flew with the Australian Flying Corps from 1916 to 1918.

718	Lt. Robert Crosby Halahan RN	24 December 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.

719	Cecil Francis Webb	31 December 1913	Described as an engineer and draughtsman he used a Grahame-White Biplane at the Grahame-White School at Hendon.

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Rex Pierson gained Royal Aero Club Aviator's certificate number 660 in October 1913.

final_sentence: Rex Pierson gained Royal Aero Club Aviator's certificate number 660 in October 1913.