Lives of the First World War

Tom Rees (18 May 1895 – 17 September 1916) was a British Army officer who served in the OTC, Royal Welch Fusiliers and later the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Joining the military in early 1915, Rees was raised to the rank of lieutenant before his twenty-first birthday and eventually reached captain on the day of his death. He was killed on 17 September 1916 while flying as an observer in an F.E.2b aircraft, which was shot down by Manfred von Richthofen, the German flying ace who was later known as the "Red Baron". The aircraft was the first of von Richthofen's 80 credited aerial combat victories.