Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-19
Giles Ran Away From Home to
Enlist In Yeoman Regiment.


Enlist in Yeoman Regiment.
Special Dispatch to The Star and North
American Newspaper Alliance.
DETROIT, Mich, August 1s.-Thir.
teen years Of adventure in far places
eliminated in the longest nonstop
airplane flight ever undertaken. when
Frederick A. Giles, English aviator,
took off from Detroit on a flight of
11,151 miles to Wellington, New Zea.
land.
The Hess Bluebird biplane which
Giles will fiy as a messenger OF good
will from Detroit to the antipodes
was completed August and taken
up for test flights August 6.
The flight is being financed by
William H. Rosewarne, general con.
tractor, Of Detroit, as a sporting prop
osition. The flight will be known as
the w. n: Observation-Disclosures.
pacific Australasian flight.
First Adventure Fell Through.
Giles first became actively inter
ested in a transpacific fight in Febru.
as navigator aboard the ship Capt.
John Clarke was to fly from Van
couver. British Columbia. to Aus.
tralia. When this venture foundered
because Of administrative difficulties,
Giles enlisted the aid Of Rosewarne,
who had been his cabin mate on the
trip from Australia to America.
Plans for a Detroit good will fight
followed.
Giles brings to the fight 10 years
OF flying experience, with an Official
air log record of 1880 hours in the
air. He has never been injured In
any flying accident, despite war serv-
ice over the western front in France,
bringing down seven German planes
and one dirigible.
Was Born In England.
Giles was born at Crown Point Hall,
England, November 90, 1898, and edu-
Gated privately at London University
and at Norwich. In October, 1914, he
ran away with several other boys
and enlisted in the Kings Own Royal
Regiment, Norfolk Imperial Woman
~, with which he served in France
on the Somme front.
In February. 1917, Giles was com.
missioned a pilot in the Royal Naval
Air Force, and has been an active
flyer since. After serving some time
as an instructor in France and Eng.
land. he returned to the front and
took part In numerous aerial encount-
ers. During the last two months of
the war he was credited with shoot.
ing down seven enemy planes and one
dirigible, and November 8, 1918-two
days before the armistice-his own
plane was shot through the engine
and forced to land behind German
lines.
Served in Africa.
After the war Giles served with
the army Of occupation in Germany.
and In May, 1919, he left for Egypt
to aid in quelling the anti-English
uprisings there. Early in 1920 he
was selected to undertake the long.
est cross-country flight made in At
RIGA and successfully few a De Havi.
land 80" biplane from Cairo, Egypt
to Nasser, in the southern Sudan
near the Abyssinion border. Later he
took part in the tribal war against
the Garjak Nuers and won the Su-
danese medal in silver.
Giles returned to England in 1921
and served as a flying instructor with
the Royal Air Force year, wher
again he was sent to Egypt. In 1924
he returned to England, resigned from
the Royal Air Force and went tc
Australia as a pilot on the Sydney-to
Adelaide air mail route. He left Aus.
tralia last April.
Giles only near relative Is his moth
er, who lives at Brundau, Norfolk
County. England.
Copyright. 1927 by North American News
paper Alliance