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Airmen - Accidental Deaths
Airmen - Accidental Deaths
This community remembers those in the RFC, RNAS and RAF who died in training and air accidents. Around 8,000 men died in Britain during flight training due to accidents and mechanical failure - more than were killed from enemy action. I'll doubt I'll be able to identify all 8,000 plus but I hope this community will be enough to represent them all.
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Born 1897
Died 1918
Canadian Expeditionary Force 153020 Air Mechanic 3rd Class Royal Flying Corps
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Private 2nd Class Royal Air Force
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Second Lieutenant Royal Air Force
More about Claude Edmund Watchorn -
Born 1893
Died 1915
British Army Captain Essex Regiment attached Royal Flying Corps
More about Walter Lawrence -
Born 1899
Died 1918
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Royal Air Force
British Army Second Lieutenant East Yorkshire Regiment 7th Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Air Force No. 3 Flying School
More about Henry Birkett -
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Born 1895
Died 1917
British Army Second Lieutenant King's Royal Rifle Corps
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
British Army Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
More about Guy Dennis Buckeridge -
Born 1896
Died 1918
British Army 506 2nd Class Air Mechanic Royal Flying Corps
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Flight Serjeant Royal Flying Corp
More about Sydney Ashby -
Born 1898
Died 1918
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 79159 Air Mechanic 3rd Class Royal Flying Corps
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
More about Frederick Augustus Crowley -
Born 1889
Died 1918
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Lieutenant Royal Air Force
More about Frank Ephraim Ball -
Born 1897
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
More about Archie Mainland Beamer -
Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army Middlesex Regiment 6th Battalion
British Army 6027 Private Royal Fusiliers
British Army 6027 Acting Corporal Royal Fusiliers 15th Battalion
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More about John Frederick Clark -
Born 1893
Died 1918
British Army 1470 Lance Serjeant West Yorkshire Regiment
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
More about Matthew Charles Morton -
Born 1889
Died 1916
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 28923 Air Mechanic 1st Class Royal Flying Corps
More about Peter Boyd Gardner -
Born 1893
Died 1917
Canadian Expeditionary Force 410987 Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Lieutenant Royal Air Force
More about Ewart Cudemore Brown -
Born 1884
Died 1918
Royal Navy F27201 Air Mechanic 1st Class HMS President II
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 227201 Air Mechanic 1st Class Royal Air Force
More about Arthur Henry Commins -
Born 1887
Died 1918
Canadian Expeditionary Force Lieutenant Pioneers
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Lieutenant
More about Albert Jacques Tremblay -
Born 1893
Died 1918
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Second Lieutenant Royal Air Force 9th Training Depot Station
More about Joseph Arthur Freeman -
Born 1897
Died 1918
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Second Lieutenant Royal Air Force
More about George Molyneaux -
Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army 74008 Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
More about George Thomas Bodycomb -
Born 1892
Died 1918
British Army Royal Berkshire Regiment Attached to Royal Flying Corps Reading (School of Aeronautics?)
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Berkshire Regiment attached to Royal Flying Corps No 1 Training Depot Station, Stamford Aerodrome
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Berkshire Regiment
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More about Thomas Rowell -
Born 1898
Died 1917
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 68740
More about Francis Brian Hallam Anderson