Trainees at the RNAS Flight Training School, Vendome, France, 1917

Trainees at the RNAS Flight Training School, Vendome, France, 1917

Probationary Flight Officers listed as under instruction at the Royal Naval Air Service flying training school at Vendome, central France, according to 'the Navy List for August 1917, corrected to 18 July 1917'. A few went on to become Air Vice-Marshalls etc; several died during training, or soon after entering war zones; many were soon demobbed and disapppeared into ordinary life, as it was coming to the end of the War. There were many Canadians as well as British.

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  • Born 1895

    Died 1946

    Royal Navy PI 39297 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome

  • Born 1897

    Died 1950

    Royal Navy PI 39282 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome-Cranwell

    Royal Navy PI 39282 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service Cranwell-Manston (Fighting School)-Dunkirk

    Air Force (RAF/RFC) 62578 Acting Pilot Officer (Prob.) Air Training Corps RAFVR Training Branch

  • Born 1898

    Royal Navy PI 40383 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome-Cranwell

    Royal Navy M21273 SBR Junior Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve

    Royal Navy Midshipman Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

  • Born 1897

    Died 1988

    Royal Navy PI 40366 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service Cranwell-East Fortune (Special flying with Fleet)

    Royal Navy PI 40366 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome-Cranwell

    Air Force (RAF/RFC) PI 40366 Lieutenant Royal Air Force East Fortune-HMS Repulse-1 Fighting School-Fleet Practice Station, Turnhouse

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    Born 1896

    Died 1984

    Canadian Expeditionary Force Lieutenant 203rd Overseas Battalion

    Canadian Expeditionary Force Lieutenant 18th Reserve Battalion

    Royal Navy PI 39273 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome-Cranwell

  • Born 1892

    Died 1942

    Air Force (RAF/RFC)

  • Born 1894

    Died 1967

    Royal Navy PI 39435 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome-Cranwell

    Royal Navy PI 39435 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service Cranwell-Killingholme-Calshot-Dundee

    Air Force (RAF/RFC) PI 39435 Lieutenant Royal Air Force RAF Seaplane Stn, Dundee-Compass course, Slough-HMS Furious-201 TS, East Fortune

  • Born 1899

    Royal Navy PI 40374 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome-Cranwell

    Royal Navy PI 40374 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service Cranwell-Redcar (Instructor's Course)

    Air Force (RAF/RFC) PI 40374 Lieutenant Royal Air Force No. 2 Unit TDS Essex-No. 207 TDS-No.1 Obs. School of Aerial Gunnery

  • Born 1893

    Died 1942

    Royal Navy PI 39242 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome-Cranwell

    Royal Navy PI 39242 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service Cranwell-Calshot-Yarmouth

    Air Force (RAF/RFC) PI 39242 2nd Lieutenant Royal Air Force Yarmouth

  • Born 1897

    Died 1974

    Canadian Expeditionary Force 490904 Private University of Toronto Training Corps

    Royal Navy PI 39252 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Vendome-Cranwell

    Royal Navy PI 39252 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service Cranwell-Manston

  • Born 1898

    Died 1979

    Royal Navy PI 39436 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome-Cranwell

    Royal Navy PI 39436 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service Cranwell-Calshot

    Royal Navy Midshipman Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

  • Born 1899

    Died 1974

    Royal Navy PI 40365 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome-Cranwell

    Royal Navy PI 40365 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service Cranwell-Manston (Handley Page Squadron)-No. 6 Wing [Adriatic]

    Air Force (RAF/RFC) PI 40365 Lieutenant Royal Air Force 66 Wing/67 Wing-224 Squadron-79 Gen. Hospital [Taranto]-55 TDS

  • Born 1896

    Died 1963

    British Army 566 Sapper Royal Marines No.1 Field Company

    British Army 566 Acting 2nd Corporal 63rd Royal Naval Division Engineers Deal Battalion

    British Army 199924 Acting 2nd Corporal Royal Engineers

  • Born 1893

    Died 1967

    Royal Navy PI 39199 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome-Cranwell

    Royal Navy PI 39199 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service Cranwell-Calshot-East Fortune-Yarmouth

    Air Force (RAF/RFC) Lieutenant Royal Air Force Felixstowe

  • Born 1895

    Died 1945

    Royal Navy PI 39332 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome-Cranwell

    Royal Navy PI 39332 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service Cranwell-Manston-Dunkirk-Stonehenge (for Instruction)

    Air Force (RAF/RFC) PI 39332 Lieutenant Royal Air Force No. 1 School of Nav. &Bomb Dropping-Hospital-216 Sqn/Egypt/France

  • Born 1898

    Died 1920

    Royal Navy PI 39437 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome-Cranwell

    Royal Navy PI 39437 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service Cranwell-Killingholme-No. 6 Wing

    Air Force (RAF/RFC) PI 39437 Lieutenant Royal Air Force No. 6 Wing, Adriatic-66 Wing, Otranto-[POW]-29 TC Sqn-209 TDS

  • Born 1898

    Died 1974

    Royal Navy PI 39434 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome-Cranwell

    Royal Navy PI 39343 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service Cranwell-Calshot

    British Army Second Lieutenant Highland Light Infantry

  • Born 1899

    Died 1923

    Royal Navy PI 40373 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome-Cranwell

    Royal Navy PI 40373 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service Cranwell-Manston (Fighting School Instruction)-Dunkirk-No. 2 Wing (Aegean)

    Air Force (RAF/RFC) PI 40373 Lieutenant Royal Air Force No. 2 Wing (Aegean)-220 Sqn

  • Born 1899

    Died 1987

    Royal Navy PI 40362 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome-Cranwell

    Royal Navy PI 40362 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service Cranwell-Calshot-Dundee-Slough (Compass Course)-Felixstowe

    Air Force (RAF/RFC)

  • Born 1898

    Died 1918

    Royal Navy PI 39329 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Vendome-Cranwell

    Royal Navy PI 39329 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service Cranwell-Manston (Handley Page Sqdn)-Dunkirk