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Taking Flight
Taking Flight
Young pilots of the UK and Commonwealth who served in the RFC/RAF in WW1.
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Born 1894
Died 1918
Canadian Expeditionary Force Lieutenant
Royal Navy Flight Sub Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Lieutenant Royal Air Force
More about George Powell Armstrong -
Born 1897
Died 1918
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Lieutenant
More about Thomas Barton Simpson -
Born 1893
Died 1918
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 74988 Second Lieutenant
More about George Emmerson Dowler -
Born 1893
Died 1917
British Army Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Captain Royal Flying Corps
More about James Kidston Law -
Born 1889
Died 1968
Air Force (RAF/RFC)
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Flight Commander
More about Sidney Vincent Sippe -
Born 1899
Died 1918
Royal Navy PI 40368 Probationary Flight Officer Royal Naval Air Service Crystal Palace-Eastbourne-Cranwell
Royal Navy PI 40368 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service Cranwell-Manston Fighting School-No. 2 Wing
Air Force (RAF/RFC) PI 40368 Lieutenant Royal Air Force No. 2 Wing-222 Squadron-62 Wing-220 Squadron
More about Preston Anthony Augustus Enright -
Born 1892
Died 1917
British Army Royal Flying Corps
British Army Lieutenant Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry attached Royal Flying Corps
More about Alaric Pinder Boor -
Born 1890
Died 1919
Australian Imperial Force 1650
Australian Imperial Force 1650 Air Mechanic 2nd Class Australian Flying Corps
More about John Henry Toole -
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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More about William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse -
Born 1878
Died 1921
British Army Colonel Royal Flying Corps
Other Empire Force Captain French Foreign Legion Aviation Militaire
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Lieutenant Colonel Australian Flying Corps
More about Walter Oswald Watt -
Born 1882
Died 1919
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Second Lieutenant Royal Air Force
More about John Marcon Floyd -
Born 1899
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Lieutenant
More about Geoffrey Grierson Bailey -
Born 1893
Died 1918
British Army Second Lieutenant Army Cyclist Corps
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Air Force
British Army Lieutenant Royal Air Force
More about Evan Davies Jones -
Born 1985
Died 1983
Australian Imperial Force 674
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Captain
More about Alexander Augustus Norman Pentland -
Born 1888
Died 1917
British Army 10505 1st Class Mochi Royal Air Force
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
More about Albert Sydney Morgan -
Born 1896
Died 1986
Air Force (RAF/RFC)
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Royal Naval Air Service No. 3 Naval Squadron
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More about Leonard Henry Rochford -
Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army 28292 Corporal Royal Engineers
British Army Second Lieutenant
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Irish Regiment
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More about George Edward Henry Mcelroy -
Born 1889
Died 1917
British Army Major Royal Flying Corps
British Army Lieutenant Temporary Major Royal Flying Corps
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Chief Test Pilot Major Royal Aircraft Factory
More about Frank Widenham Goodden -
Born 1888
Died 1945
Canadian Expeditionary Force Lieutenant 31st Canadian Infantry
British Army Captain Royal Flying Corps
Other Empire Force Major US Army - Signal Corps - Aviation Section
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More about Harold Evans Hartney -
Born 1893
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Flight Sub Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service
More about Hubert Bethune Kerruish