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Royal Flying Corps No. 2 Squadron
Royal Flying Corps No. 2 Squadron
Remembering the lives of men of the RFC No. 2 Squadron. The Squadron was formed at Farnborough on 13th May 1912, on the founding of the Royal Flying Corps, as one of the first three squadrons of the new force. It was formed from a detachment of No. 2 (Aeroplane) Company of the Royal Engineers Air Battalion. Both 2 Squadron and 3 Squadron were equipped with fixed wing aeroplanes, while 1 Squadron was equipped with airships. From 26th February 1913 the squadron was based at Montrose, the first operational Royal Flying Corps base in the UK located just outside Montrose, Angus, which was established on the instructions of the First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill to protect the Royal Navy. The squadron was the first to fly the English Channel into France at the start of the First World War, and spent the war on reconnaissance duties in France flying, amongst other aircraft, the B.E.2. Although its principal role was not air-to-air combat, it still had one flying ace among its ranks in Arthur William Hammond, and also numbered the first aviation Victoria Cross winners in its ranks, in Second Lieutenant Rhodes-Moorhouse and Lieutenant Alan Arnett McLeod.
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Born 1895
Died 1920
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Flying Officer 2nd Squadron
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 84455
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Born 1887
Died 1915
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
British Army Lieutenant Special Reserve / Royal Flying Corps 2nd Squadron
British Army Second Lieutenant Special Reserve / Royal Flying Corps
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Born 1891
Died 1917
British Army Lieutenant Royal Irish Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Irish Regiment
British Army Lieutenant Royal Irish Regiment attached to the Royal Flying Corps
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More about Hubert Dunsterville Harvey-Kelly -
Born 1882
Died 1961
Air Force (RAF/RFC)
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British Army Captain Hampshire Yeomanry Territorial Force Reserve
British Army Lieutenant Colonel Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force
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Born 1886
Died 1948
British Army Second Lieutenant Manchester Regiment 3rd Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant Manchester Regiment attached to Royal Flying Corps 2 Squadron
British Army Lieutenant Manchester Regiment attached to Royal Flying Corps
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British Army Captain Attached Royal Flying Corps
British Army Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Royal Flying Corps
More about George William Patrick Dawes -
Born 1888
Died 1983
British Army Second Lieutenant King's Own Scottish Borderers
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
British Army Captain Royal Flying Corps
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More about Percy Gilbert Ross-Hume -
Born 1892
Died 1971
Air Force (RAF/RFC)
British Army Second Lieutenant The Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Flight Commander (Temporary Captain) Royal Flying Corp
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Born 1882
Died 1917
British Army Lieutenant Colonel Royal Irish Regiment Attached East Lancashire Regiment
British Army Lieutenant Colonel Royal Irish Regiment
British Army Brevet Major Royal Irish Regiment attached Royal Flying Corps No. 2. Squadron
More about Charles James Burke -
Born 1899
Died 1918
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 70180 Lieutenant
More about Alan Arnett Mcleod -
British Army Major Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Aviation Commodore Royal Air Force
British Army Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary/Brigadier General) Bedfordshire Regiment
More about Thomas Ince Webb Bowen -
Born 1884
Died 1948
British Army Captain Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry oxfordshire and Battalion
British Army Colonel Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry oxfordshire and Battalion
More about Ulrick John Deane Bourke -
Born 1879
Died 1949
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Brigadier General 2 Brigade RFC
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Major Royal Flying Corps No.6 Squadron
More about John Harold Whitworth Becke -
British Army 25 Trooper Royal Horse Guards
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Engineers 82nd Company
British Army Lieutenant Royal Air Force
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