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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 1886
Died 1917
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps 27 Reserve Squadron
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
More about Charles Richard Needs -
Born 1895
Died 1919
British Army 1716 Private Honourable Artillery Company
British Army Lieutenant Suffolk Regiment Attached Royal Air Force
British Army Lieutenant Royal Air Force
More about Gerald Harwood A.f.c. -
Died 1917
British Army 32295 Corporal Royal Engineers
British Army Temporary Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
More about Thomas Russell Jarvie -
Born 1887
Died 1917
British Army Serjeant Household Cavalry Welsh Horse Yeomanry
British Army Second Lieutenant Household Cavalry Welsh Horse Yeomanry
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps 66 Squadron
More about Archibald Vincent Shirley -
Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army Second Lieutenant The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 3rd City Battalion
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Royal Flying Corps Reading - Probably No 1 School of Military Aeronautics
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Royal Flying Corps Castle Bromwich
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More about Peter Dudley Stuart -
Born 1899
Died 1918
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 316204 Flight Cadet
More about Edward James Rice -
Born 1887
Died 1920
Australian Imperial Force 13
Australian Imperial Force 666 Serjeant Australian Flying Corps 69th Squadron
Australian Imperial Force 666 Sergeant Australian Flying Corps
More about Abner Gilchrist Dalzell, M.s.m. -
Born 1889
Died 1915
British Army Captain Rifle Brigade/Royal Flying Corps
More about Reginald Cholmondeley -
Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army Northamptonshire Regiment (Attached to Royal Air Force) School of Aeronautics, Reading
British Army SS/1626 Private Army Service Corps
British Army SS/1626 Private Army Service Corps 58th Training Reserve Battalion
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More about Harry Goosey -
Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army Inns of Court OTC
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps General List
More about Callum Craig Munro Bell -
Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army 5025 Air Mechanic 2nd Class Royal Flying Corps
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 5025 Sergeant Royal Flying Corps
More about James Hubert Ronald Green -
Born 1895
Died 1918
British Army 3612 Private Middlesex Regiment
British Army 3612 Corporal Middlesex Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Duke Of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) 10th Battalion (Territorial)
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More about Herbert Cecil Kibby -
Born 1892
Died 1918
Australian Imperial Force 2884 Air Mechanic 1st Class Australian Flying Corps
More about Sydney Harold Banks-Smith -
Born 1895
Died 1917
British Army 9940 2nd Airman Royal Flying Corps
British Army 9940 1st Airman Royal Flying Corps
British Army 9940 Flight Sergeant Royal Flying Corps
More about Arthur George Banfield Rodgman -
Born 1899
Died 1918
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Second Lieutenant Royal Air Force
More about Philip Clive Weaver-Adams -
Born 1891
Died 1914
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps 3 Squadron
More about Robin Reginald Skene -
Born 1891
Died 1916
Indian Army Second Lieutenant Indian Army Reserve of Officers attd. 108th Inf., and 66th Squadron Royal Flying Corps
More about George Douglas Pechell -
Born 1891
Died 1917
British Army Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
British Army Captain Royal Flying Corps
More about Arthur Wilson Kilgour -
Born 1895
Died 1918
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Royal Flying Corps
British Army 87050 Middlesex Regiment 6th Battalion
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 87655 Air Mechanic 3rd Class Royal Air Force No 31 Training Depot Station, RAF Fowlemere
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More about Sidney Edward Rich -
Born 1892
Died 1915
British Army Lieutenant Liverpool attached King's Royal Rifle Corps
British Army Captain King's Royal Rifle Corps Liverpool Regiment attached Royal Flying Corps
More about Gilbert William Roger Mapplebeck