Ernest Lloyd Janney no relation December 1 1914
Ernest Lloyd Janney (1893–1941) was the Provisional Commander of the Canadian Aviation Corps between 1914 and 1915. Janney pushed for the establishment of a Canadian flying corps during the First World War.Career 1914–15
Janney managed to convince Minister of Militia and Defence, Sir Sam Hughes, to commission him as captain and to grant him $5,000 for a flying corps. Janney purchased a floatplane in Massachusetts, United States, a Burgess-Dunne AH-7, then went to England with the pilot, Lieutenant W.F.N. Sharpe, in October, 1914. Janney's aircraft was criticized for not being airworthy, effectively grounding him. He then went on an unauthorized tour of British flying fields and aircraft factories and was listed as absent without leave.
In November 1914, he made an appeal to the federal government for a grant of $116,000 to form a squadron. Janney was then ordered to return home, was stripped of his commission and forced to resign in disgrace December 1, 1914.