page_title: 1919 England to Australia flight
section_title: Martinsyde Type A
hierarchical_section_title: 1919 England to Australia flight / Contestants / Martinsyde Type A
caption_attribution_description: English: Lieutenants Parer and McIntosh's arrival in Mascot Aerodrome on completing a flight from England, Sydney, 21 August 1920
context_page_description: In 1919 the Australian government offered a prize of £A10,000 for the first Australians in a British aircraft to fly from Great Britain to Australia. Of the six entries that started the race, the winners were pilot Ross Smith, his brother Keith Smith as co-pilot, and mechanics James Bennett and Wally Shiers, in a modified Vickers Vimy bomber.
context_section_description: On 5 December 1919, Captain Cedric E. Howell and Lieutenant George Henry Fraser left London in a Martinsyde Type A Mk.I (G-EAMR) aircraft. On 9 December, the aircraft disappeared near Corfu. The wreckage and Howell's body were found offshore, but Fraser's body was never found.
caption: Lieutenants Parer and McIntosh's arrival in Mascot Aerodrome on completing a flight from England, Sydney, 21 August 1920.
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