List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Royal Aero Club in 1912
List
Table:
Royal Aero Club certificates awarded in 1912 (nos. 169—382)

No.
Name
Date
Comment

169

Lt. Garthshore Tindal Porter RA

9 January 1912[1]

(1887-1957) Australian-born. Used a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain. Born in Queensland Colony before joining the British Army. Served in the Royal Garrison Artillery, the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force. Died in Cheltenham.

170

Lt. Amyas Eden Borton, Black Watch

9 January 1912[1]

(1886-1969) Used a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain. Served in the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force. Retired as an Air Vice-Marshal, in 1933.

171

Benjamin Graham Wood

9 January 1912[1]

(1883-1967) An engineer. Used a Hewlett and Blondeau Farman biplane at Brooklands.

172

Sydney Vincent Sippe[2]

9 January 1912[1]

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[3]

Used a Bristol biplane at Brooklands.

174

Lt. Napier John Gill

16 January 1912[3]

Author of "The Flyer's Guide: An Elementary Handbook for Aviators", 1917.

175

Frederick Bernard Fowler

16 January 1912[3]

Founded the Eastbourne Aviation Company; in 1919, at the rank of major, he was awarded the AFC (UK).[4] He was also a member of the 1921 Sempill Mission to Japan, for which he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun (4th Class)[5]

176

Lt. Alan Geoffrey Fox RE

30 January 1912[6]

-

177

Lt. Eric Mackay Murray

30 January 1912[6]

1886-1954Served in the Royal Flying Corps and was awarded the Military Cross and the Distinguished Service Order, retired in 1933 as a Group Captain in the Royal Air Force.

178

Giovanni Sabelli

30 January 1912[6]

(1886-1917) Italian. Used a Deperdussin Monoplane at Brooklands. Killed in action over the Bainsizza Plateau.

179

Frederick Warren Merriam[2]

6 February 1912[7]

-

180

William Bendall

6 February 1912[7]

-

181

Eng. Lt. Charles Russell Jekyl Randall

13 February 1912[8]

-

182

Capt. Thomas Weeding

13 February 1912[8]

-

183

Damer Leslie Allen

20 February 1912[9]

Disappeared while attempting to cross the Irish Channel from Holyhead on 18 April 1912.[10]

184

Sydney Parr

20 February 1912[9]

-

185

Lt. Bertram Richard White Beor RFA

20 February 1912[9]

-

186

Marcel Desoutter[2]

27 February 1912[11]

-

187

Lt. Stephen Christopher Winfield-Smith

27 February 1912[11]

-

188

Lt. Cecil Thomas Carfrae RFA

27 February 1912[11]

-

189

Herbert Dennis Cutler

5 March 1912[12]

-

190

Victor Annesley Barrington-Kennett

5 March 1912[12]

(1887-1916). 2nd Lt in the London Balloon Corps used a Short biplane at Eastchurch. Killed in action flying a Bristol Scout on 13 Mar 1916 in Flanders while serving as a Major and commanding officer of No. 4 Squadron Royal Flying Corps. Three of the four brothers were killed in the Great War (see entry: No. 43).[13]

191

Lt. Clement Gordon Wakefield Head RN

5 March 1912[12]

-Lt. Cmdr of HM Submarine D2 which was rammed and sunk by German Patrol boat in the North Sea off Borkum Island on 25 November 1914. Memorial on Portsmouth Naval Memorial for Officers killed in 1914 and in Seaford Cemetery.

192

Lt. Charles Longcroft

5 March 1912[12]

RFC pilot, squadron, wing and brigade commander during World War I. First Commandant of the RAF College Cranwell.

193

Cyril Wright Meredith

5 March 1912[12]

-

194

Capt. Patrick Hamilton

12 March 1912[14]

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".[15]

195

Cecil J. L'Estrange Malone

12 March 1912[14]

Pioneer naval aviator and Britain's first communist member of the House of Commons

196

Major George Hebden Raleigh, Essex Regiment

12 March 1912[14]

(1878-1915) Australian. Used a Bristol Monoplane at Brooklands, killed in action 21 January 1915 off Belgian Coast,[16] flying a Vickers FB5 Born in Melbourne and educated at Geelong Grammar School, before joining the British Army and serving in the 2nd Boer War: Queen's South Africa Medal and 8 clasps.

197

Ronald Louis Charteris

12 March 1912[14]

Used a Deperdussin Monoplane at Brooklands, an aeronautical engineer with the All British Engine Company.[17]

198

George Prensiell

19 March 1912[18]

A German engineer, used a Bleriot Monoplane at Hendon.[19]

199

William Ewart Hart

26 March 1912[20]

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.[21][22]

200

Capt. Francis John Brodigan

26 March 1912[20]

-

201

Lt. Alexander Ernest Burchardt-Ashton, 4th Dragoon Guards

16 April 1912[23]

Used a Bristol Biplane at Larkhill, Salisbury Plain.[24] 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.[25] He resigned his commission in 1915,[26] and was killed in action in France on 11 July 1916 as a Lance Corporal with the Royal Fusiliers.[27]

202

Lt. F. A. P. Williams-Freeman RN

16 April 1912[23]

-

203

Com. O. Schwann RN

16 April 1912[23]

-

204

Capt. P. W. L. Broke-Smith RE

16 April 1912[23]

Awarded Airship Pilot's Certificate No. 2 on 14 February 1911[28]

205

Lt. L. C. Rogers Harrison

16 April 1912[23]

Killed in air crash in a Cody Biplane on 28 April 1913 at Farnborough[29]

206

Sub.-Lt. C. H. K. Edmonds RN

16 April 1912[23]

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.[30]

207

D. G. Young

16 April 1912[23]

-

208

Lucien Alfred Tremlett

30 April 1912[31]

Born in Paris in 1887 he took his certificate on a Bleriot Monoplane at Hendon.

209

Lt. John Dolben Mackworth

30 April 1912[31]

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. Esme Fairfax Chinnery

30 April 1912[31]

1886-1915 Coldstream Guards and Royal Flying Corps, killed in an aircraft accident in France on 18 January 1915

211

John Robertson Duigan

30 April 1912[31]

-

212

Lt. H. C. Fielding

30 April 1912[31]

-

213

Major Sir Alexander Bannerman, Bart., RE

30 April 1912[31]

-

214

Lt. Alan Hartree RFA

14 May 1912[32]

-

215

Lt. Gordon Strachey Shephard

14 May 1912[32]

Rose quickly to the rank of Brigadier-General at age 32;[33] Commanding Officer of 1st Brigade R.F.C, died 19 January 1918,[34] when his Nieuport Scout span into the ground.[35]

216

Lt. Donald Swain Lewis RE

14 May 1912[32]

Died on an inspection flight in France in 1916.[36]

217

Capt. Godfrey Paine RN

14 May 1912[32]

First commandant of the Central Flying School at RAF Upavon; he attained the ranks of Major-General, Rear-Admiral and Air Vice-Marshal,[37] 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 Baird

4 June 1912[38]

-

219

Hugh Percy Nesham

4 June 1912[38]

-

220

Charles Lindsay-Campbell

4 June 1912[38][39]

Killed at Brooklands in a Bristol monoplane on 3 August 1912 when the aircraft stalled after engine failure.[39]

221

Francis Henry Fowler

4 June 1912[38]

-

222

Thomas O'Brien Hubbard

4 June 1912[38]

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.

223

Montague Righton Nevill Jennings

4 June 1912[38]

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.

224

Alphonse Potet

4 June 1912[38]

A French mechanic used a Bleriot Monoplane at Hendon.

225

Richard Thomas Gates[2]

4 June 1912[38]

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.

226

Lt. David Percival RGA

4 June 1912[38]

-

227

2nd.-Corporal Frank Ridd RE

4 June 1912[38]

1884-? Using a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain he becomes the first non-commissioned officer to become a pilot. A former Bricklayer before he joined the Royal Engineers, he had transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in May 1912 and moved to the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918 where he was a Carpenter and Rigger.

228

Lt. Leonard Dawes

4 June 1912[38]

1885-? 2nd Middlesex Regiment, served with the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force during the Great War before returning to the Army. Appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour by the French in November 1914.

229

Lt. J. N. Fletcher RE

4 June 1912[38]

-

230

Lt. Baron Trevenen James RE

4 June 1912[38]

1889-1915 Killed in action 13 July 1915 with 6 Squadron RFC.

231

Marcus Dyce Manton[2]

4 June 1912[38]

-

232

Staff-Sergeant Richard H. V. Wilson RE

18 June 1912[40]

Died in a crash on Salisbury Plain 5 July 1912, in a Nieuport piloted by Eustace B. Loraine.[41]

233

Lt. Desmond L. Arthur

18 June 1912[40]

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."[42]

234

Lt. Ercole Ercole

18 June 1912[40]

Italian Army aviator used a Bristol biplane at Larkhill, Salisbury Plain.

235

Paul Dubois

18 June 1912[40]

-

236

Capt. John Harold Whitworth Becke

18 June 1912[40]

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[40]

-

238

Edward H. Morriss

18 June 1912[40]

-

239

Capt. A. D. Carden

18 June 1912[40]

-

240

Capt. Herbert Charles Agnew RE

2 July 1912[43]

-

241

Lionel Boyd Moss

2 July 1912[43]

-

242

Capt. T. Ince Webb-Bowen

2 July 1912[43]

-

243

Vivian Hugh Nicholas Wadham

16 July 1912[44]

-

244

P. L. W. Herbert

16 July 1912[44]

-

245

A. Christie

16 July 1912[44]

-

246

H. I. Bulkely

16 July 1912[44]

-

247

E. V. Anderson

16 July 1912[44]

-

248

Ronald Hargrave Kershaw

16 July 1912[44]

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[44]

-

250

R. A. Lister

16 July 1912[44]

-

251

Harold Sweetman-Powell

24 July 1912[45]

-

252

Lt. Hugh Lambert Reilly IA[46]

24 July 1912[45]

-

253

Air Mechanic William Victor Strugnell

24 July 1912[45]

1892-1977 Royal Flying Corps, a First World War flying ace he was credited with six aerial victories, retired as a Royal Air Force Group Captain in 1945. He was awarded a Military Cross in 1914 and a bar in 1917.

254

Lt. F. M. Worthington-Wilmer

24 July 1912[45]

-

255

Capt. Robert C. W. Alston

24 July 1912[45]

-

256

Lt. Claude Albemarle Bettington

24 July 1912[45]

Killed on 10 September 1912,[47] 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[45]

-

258

Robert William Rickerby Gill

24 July 1912[45]

-

259

Edward Petre

24 July 1912[45]

Brother of Henry A. Petre, holder of Aviator's Certificate no. 128; killed 24 December 1912 at Marske-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire[48]

260

Lt. Francis FitzGerald Waldron

24 July 1912[45]

-

261

Herbert Rutter Simms

24 July 1912[45]

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.

262

Pte. John Edmonds RMLI

30 July 1912[49]

-

263

Sidney Pickles[2]

30 July 1912[49]

-

264

Maj. John Frederick Andrews Higgins RFA

30 July 1912[49]

-

265

Eng. Lt. Edward Featherstone Briggs RN

30 July 1912[49]

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.

266

Capt. Charles Percy Nicholas IA

30 July 1912[49]

-

267

Lt. Kenlis Parcival Atkinson RFA

30 July 1912[49]

-

268

Ralph Gerald Holyoake

13 August 1912[50]

-

269

Air Mechanic William Thomas James McCudden

13 August 1912[50]

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.

270

Maj. Hugh Montague Trenchard

13 August 1912[50]

Later to command the Royal Flying Corps in France and serve as first Chief of the Air Staff

271

Lt. Reginald Cholmondeley

13 August 1912[50]

-

272

Capt. John Maitland Salmond

13 August 1912[50]

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 August 1912[50]

-

274

William Snowdon Hedley

13 August 1912[50]

-

275

William John Harrison

13 August 1912[50]

-

276

Staff-Sergeant William Thomas

3 September 1912[51]

-

277

Capt. Robert Harry Lucas Cordner RAMC

3 September 1912[51]

-

278

Richard Harold Barnwell[2]

3 September 1912[51]

Brother of Frank Barnwell. Became a test pilot for Vickers, killed testing the Vickers F.B.26

279

Capt. The Hon. Claude Brabazon

3 September 1912[51]

-

280

Lt. Philip Joubert de la Ferté RFA

3 Sept.1912[51]

Retired in 1945 as Air Chief Marshal RAF

281

Maj. Edward Bailey Ashmore MVO, RFA

3 September 1912[51]

-

282

Lt. Claude Grenville Shephard Gould RGA

3 September 1912[51]

-

283

Lt. Patrick Henry Lyon Playfair RFA

3 September 1912[51]

-

284

Lt. F. A. Wanklyn RFA

3 September 1912[51]

-

285

Walter Laurence Brock[2]

3 September 1912[51]

-

286

Engine-room Artificer Thomas O'Connor RN

3 September 1912[51]

-

287

Edouard Baumann

3 September 1912[51]

-

288

Lt. Philip Shepherd RN

17 September 1912[52]

-

289

I. G. Vaughan-Fowler

17 September 1912[52]

-

290

Lt. Gilbert Vernon Wildman-Lushington RMA

17 September 1912[52]

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.[53]

291

John Laurence Hall

17 September 1912[52]

-

292

Samuel Summerfield

17 September 1912[52]

-

293

2nd Lt Edward Wallace Cheeseman RFC

17 September 1912[52]

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 RN

17 September 1912[52]

-

295

Ernest Frank Sutton

17 September 1912[52]

-

296

Lt. John Wilfred Seddon RN

17 September 1912[52]

-

297

Harry George Hawker[2]

17 Sept.1912[52]

-

298

Lt. A C Holms MacLean

17 September 1912[52]

-

299

Capt. Charles L. Price

17 September 1912[52]

-

300

Lt. G. B. Stopford RFA

17 September 1912[52]

-

301

Geoffrey W. England

17 September 1912[52]

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.[42]

302

Vivian Hewitt

1 October 1912[54]

-

303

Capt. Charles Erskine Risk RMLI

1 October 1912[54]

-

304

Lt. Ivon Terence Courtney RMLI

1 October 1912[54]

-

305

Capt. Edward Leonard Ellington

1 October 1912[54]

Later Marshal of the Royal Air Force

306

Victor Yates

1 October 1912[54]

-

307

Lt. Hugh Fanshawe Glanville, West India Regiment

1 October 1912[54]

-

308

Lt. Leslie Da Costa Penn-Gaskell, 3rd Norfolk Regiment

1 October 1912[54]

-

309

Capt. Herbert Creagh MacDonnell, The Royal Irish Regiment

1 October 1912[54]

-

310

Arthur Edward Geere

1 October 1912[54]

-

311

2nd Lt. Dermot Roberts Hanlon RGA

1 October 1912[54]

-

312

Lt. Felton Vesey Holt

1 October 1912[54]

-

313

Capt. George Ralph Miller RFA

1 October 1912[54]

-

314

A. M. Wynne

15 October 1912[55]

-

315

John Herbert James

15 October 1912[55]

-

316

Lt. G. I. Carmichael RFA

15 October 1912[55]

-

317

Victor Colin Higginbottom

15 October 1912[55]

-

318

2nd Lt. D. L. Allen, 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers

15 October 1912[55]

-

319

Lt. L. Loultcheff, Bulgarian Army

15 October 1912[55]

-

320

Lt. R. G. H. Murray, 9th Gurkha Rifles

15 October 1912[55]

-

321

Dr. David Edmund Stodart

15 October 1912[55]

-

322

Edward Birch

15 October 1912[55]

-

323

W. L. Hardman

15 October 1912[55]

-

324

Rudolph Holscher

15 October 1912[55]

-

325

E. N. Fuller

15 October 1912[55]

-

326

A. V. Bettington

15 October 1912[55]

-

327

Captain R. S. H. Grace, 13th Hussars

15 October 1912[55]

-

328

Lt. C. L. Courtney RN

15 October 1912[55]

-

329

C. W. Wilson

15 October 1912[55]

-

330

Paymaster Eustace R. Berne RN

15 October 1912[55]

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. Berne died from loss of blood and shock two and a half hours after the accident.[56]

331

Howard T. Wright

15 October 1912[55]

-

332

Harold Wesley Hall

15 October 1912[55]

-

333

Albert Deakin RN

15 October 1912[55]

-

334

Boatswain Henry C. Bobbett RN

19 October 1912[55]

-

335

Capt. Robert Boger RE

22 October 1912[57]

336

Lt. A. M. Read, Northamptonshire Regiment

22 October 1912[57]

Later won the Victoria Cross. Killed in action September 1915.

337

Arthur Payze

22 October 1912[57]

338

Lt. Frederick Ernest Styles, Royal Munster Fusiliers

22 October 1912[57]

339

Norman Channing Spratt[2]

22 October 1912[57]

340

Capt. J. A. Chamier, 33rd Punjabis

22 October 1912[57]

341

2nd Lt. G. F. Pretyman, 1st Somerset Light Infantry

22 October 1912[57]

342

Lt. E. L. Conran 2nd County of London Yeomanry

22 October 1912[57]

343

Lt. F. G. Small Connaught Rangers

22 October 1912[57]

344

Henry Howard James

22 October 1912[57]

345

Commander Alan Montagu Yeats Brown RN

22 October 1912[57]

346

Capt. J. H. Gibbon RFA

29 October 1912[58]

347

Lt. G. A. Parker, 3rd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment

29 October 1912[58]

348

Capt. James Lancaster Lucena RFRA

29 October 1912[58]

349

Cyril Edgar Foggin

29 October 1912[58]

350

Emile Louis Gassier

29 October 1912[58]

351

Capt. Frederick St. George Tucker, The Worcestershire Regiment

29 October 1912[58]

352

Capt. Robert Pigot, Rifle Brigade

29 October 1912[58]

353

Tom Grave

29 October 1912[58]

354

Capt. John Crosby Halahan, late Royal Dublin Fusiliers

29 October 1912[58]

355

Denys Charles Ware

29 October 1912[58]

356

Capt. Oliver de Lancey Williams, 2nd Royal Welch Fusiliers

12 November 1912[59]

357

Capt. Herbert Musgrave RE

12 November 1912[59]

358

Lt. Hon. John David Boyle, Rifle Brigade

12 November 1912[59]

359

Frank William Lerwill

12 November 1912[59]

360

Lt. John F. A. Trotter RFRA

12 November 1912[59]

361

Leading Seaman Herbert Rusell RN

12 November 1912[59]

362

Lt. Reginald M. Rodwell, 1st West Yorkshire Regiment

12 November 1912[59]

363

Capt. Frederick George Kunhardt, 74th Punjabis

12 November 1912[59]

364

Maj. Arthur Baron Forman RFA

12 November 1912[59]

1873-1951 Retired as a brigadier-general

365

Lt. Richard B. Kitson, 58th Rifles FF, IA

12 November 1912[59]

366

Lt. Colin George MacArthur RN

26 November 1912[60]

367

Prince Serge Cantacuzène

26 November 1912[60]

368

John Alcock[2]

26 November 1912[60]

1892-1919 With Arthur Whitten Brown, first to fly across the Atlantic non-stop. Killed in a flying accident in France in 1919.

369

Lt. Arthur Henry Leslie Soames, 3rd The King's Own Hussars

26 November 1912[60]

-

370

Midshipman Noel F. Wheeler RN

17 December 1912[61]

-

371

Pierre Gratien

17 December 1912[61]

French

372

Petty Officer Joseph Claude Andrews RN

17 December 1912[61]

-

373

Capt. John Nowell Stanhope Sunt, 5th Dragoon Guards

17 December 1912[61]

-

374

Shipwright Robert W. Edwards RN

17 December 1912[61]

-

375

2nd Lt. William Claud Kennedy. Birch, Yorkshire Regiment

17 December 1912[61]

1891-1918 Served in the Royal Flying Corps, killed in an accident when fire broke out in Hedge Tunnel, near Loos.

376

Vincent Patrick Taylor

17 December 1912[61]

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.[62]

377

Lt. Reginald Mills, Royal Fusiliers

17 December 1912[61]

-

378

Lt. Edward Roux Littledale Corballis, Royal Dublin Fusiliers

17 December 1912[61]

1890-1967 Later a Wing Commander in the Royal Air Force, awarded the DSO and appointed an OBE

379

Lt. Robert Valentine Pollok, 15th Hussars

17 December 1912[61]

1884-1979 Retired in 1941 as a major-general.

380

Engine Room Artificer Frank Susans RN

17 December 1912[61]

1885-1955 Later served in the Royal Air Force as a Flying Officer until 1920 and was a civilian engineer at RAF Halton in 1939.

381

Leading Seaman George Prickett RN

17 December 1912[61]

1886- Later served in the Royal Air Force

382

Sub-Lt. George William Winsmore Hooper RN

17 December 1912[61]

1892-1923 Killed in Hong Kong in a motoring accident while serving on HMS Hawkins[63]

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