Lives of the First World War

May 1913

McCudden’s first flight was in a BE2a piloted by Lieutenant Baron Trevenen James. In his memoirs McCudden wrote “I asked Mr. James if he would take me up. With his usual good nature he said he would, and so I had my first flight, about the first week in May, 1913. I enjoyed this experience immensely, but on landing I concluded that flying was not so easy as was generally imagined.” B T James was killed in action on 13 July 1915. By then a Captain, he was ranging for the Artillery when he was hit by a shell.

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