The Royal Aero Club issued Aviators Certificates from 1910. These were internationally recognised under the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
Aviator's Certificates awarded | ||||
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in 1910 (1–38) |
in 1911 (39–168) |
in 1912 (169–382) |
in 1913 (383–719) |
in 1914 (720–1032) |
Legend
No. | Name | Date | Comment |
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383 | Lt. 'Georges Negresco': lt. av. Gheorghe Negrescu [ro] | 7 January 1913[1] | (1887–1977) locotenentul aviator. Romanian, Bristol Monoplane at the Bristol School, Salisbury Plain.[2] Qualified as an engineer and retired a General. Romanian Air Force squadron Flotila 70 Aviație is named after the Generalul aviator inginer Gheorghe Negrescu. |
384 | Walter Featherstone | 7 January 1913[1] | Bristol Monoplane at the Bristol School, Salisbury Plain.[3] |
385 | Lt. George Eardley Todd, Welsh Regiment | 7 January 1913[1] | Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands.[4] |
386 | Lt. Gilbert W. Mapplebeck, King's Regiment | 7 January 1913[1] | Took part in the first R.F.C. reconnaissance flight of World War I from Maubeuge, Belgium on 19 August 1914. Philip Joubert de la Ferté in a Bleriot of No. 3 Squadron RFC and Lt GW Mapplebeck in a BE2 of No. 4 Squadron RFC.[5] |
387 | Lt. John (Jack) Empson, 4th Royal Fusiliers | 7 January 1913[1] | Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands, died 15 May 1914[6] |
388 | Arthur Ewing RN | 7 January 1913[1] | Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands[7] |
389 | Capt. David Watson Powell, Northamptonshire Regiment | 7 January 1913[1] | Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands[8] |
390 | Gordon Noel Humphreys | 7 January 1913[1] | Caudron Biplane at Brooklands, later served with the Royal Flying Corps |
391 | Lt. A. B. Thompson, East Lancashire Regiment | 7 January 1913[1] | – |
392 | Lt. Lionel W. B. Rees RGA | 7 January 1913[1] | Rees was later awarded the Victoria Cross flying the De Havilland DH.2. |
393 | Engine Room Artificer Sidney T. Freeman RN | 21 January 1913[9] | – |
394 | Leading Seaman Bernard John William Brady RN | 21 January 1913[9] | – |
395 | Leading Seaman Arthur John Bateman RN | 21 January 1913[9] | – |
396 | Sub.-Lt. Arthur Wellesley Bigsworth RNR | 21 January 1913[10] | Awarded the D.S.O. for an attack on a Zeppelin on 17 May 1915[11] and a bar to his D.S.O. on 19 September 1915 "for his services in destroying singlehandedly a German submarine on the morning of August 26th, 1915, by bombs dropped from an aeroplane."[12][13] He was also mentioned in despatches.[14] Some claim that Bigsworth inspired W. E. Johns' character 'Bigglesworth' (Biggles).[15] |
397 | Lt. F W Bowhill RN | 21 January 1913[16] | Later air chief marshal. |
398 | Lt. Alexander Claud Garden Brown RN | 21 January 1913[9] | 1890–1919 Bristol Biplane at Eastbourne, later Royal Air Force. Died of wounds 6 May 1918 in France while serving with 48 Squadron RAF, had been wounded on a reconnaissance flight on 3 May 1918.[17] |
399 | Lt. Alexander Shekleton, Royal Munster Fusiliers | 21 January 1913[9] | – |
400 | Capt. Gilbert Braithwaite Rickards, late Royal Munster Fusiliers | 21 January 1913[9] | – |
401 | Henry Elliot William Macandrew | 21 January 1913[9] | – |
402 | Assistant-Paymaster John Henry Lidderdale RN | 21 January 1913[9] | – |
403 | Sub.-Lt. Reginald Leonard George Marix RNVR | 21 January 1913[9] | (1889–1966) Royal Naval Air Service, later Royal Air Force where he reached the rank of Air Vice Marshal. The first aviator to destroy a Zeppelin from an aircraft in 1914. |
404 | Lt. If. D. Vernon RN | 21 January 1913[9] | – |
405 | Sub. Lt. H. A. Littleton RNVR | 21 January 1913[10] | – |
406 | A. L. Russell | 21 January 1913[9] | – |
407 | Evelyn Ronald Whitehouse | 21 January 1913[9] | 1894–1979 Deperdussin Monoplane at Hendon, later Royal Naval Air Service then Royal Air Force. |
408 | Lt. J. T. Babington RN | 21 January 1913[9] | One of three Avro 504A pilots who carried out the bombing raid on the Zeppelin Base at Friedrichshafen on 21 November 1914. Later worked as a test pilot for Handley-Page. Remained in the RAF until 1944, retired with the rank of Air Marshal. Died in 1979. |
409 | Horace A. Buss | 4 February 1913[18] | – |
410 | Montague F. Glew | 4 February 1913[18] | – |
411 | Hubert Scott | 4 February 1913[18] | – |
412 | Air Mechanic Reginald Collis | 4 February 1913[18] | – |
413 | Christopher Nevile | 4 February 1913[18] | – |
414 | Capt. E. G. R. Lithgow RAMC | 4 February 1913[18] | – |
415 | Assistant Paymaster E. B. Parker RN | 18 February 1913[19] | – |
416 | Lt. M. W. Noel | 18 February 1913[19] | – |
417 | 2nd-Lt. R. M. Vaughan, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers | 18 February 1913[19] | – |
418 | Harold Thomas Gardiner Lane | 18 February 1913[19] | 1891–1919 Bristol Biplane at Brooklands |
419 | Frederick Frank Reilly Minchin | 18 February 1913[19] | 1890–1927 Bristol Biplane at Eastbourne, disappeared in 1927 over the Atlantic Ocean in Fokker F.VIIa St. Raphael. |
420 | J. Crawford Kehrmann | 18 February 1913[19] | – |
421 | Capt. William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond RFA | 18 February 1913[19] | – |
422 | Lt. R. P. Ross RN | 18 February 1913[19] | – |
423 | Lt. James Robert Branch Kennedy RN | 18 February 1913[19] | Died on 13 June 1913, as passenger of C. Gordon Bell, at Brooklands in a Martinsyde monoplane.[20] |
424 | George Lee Temple | 18 February 1913[19] | Died when he crashed in a Blériot monoplane at Hendon on 25 January 1914. The Royal Aero Club's Accident Investigation Committee's Report N. 19 stated that "the condition of the pilot's health, as disclosed by the medical evidence, coupled with the fact of the gradual turning over of the aircraft in its descent to the ground, point to the pilot having lost consciousness just before or at the commencement of the dive, and that this loss of consciousness and control was the cause of the accident."[21] |
425 | Lt. D. A. Oliver RN | 18 February 1913[19] | – |
426 | Lt. Thomas Scholes Creswell RMLI | 18 February 1913[19] | Lt. Creswell died, together with his passenger, Commander Rice, near Calshot when his seaplane (RNAS Serial no. 128) entered a dive from which he was unable to recover, hitting the water vertically at high speed. A witness, C. Gordon Bell, attested to the fact that the left wing started to break up before the aircraft hit the water. A verdict of 'accidental death from drowning' was recorded.[22] |
427 | Lt. L. L. MacLean, Gurkha Rifles | 18 February 1913[19] | – |
428 | Jules Teulade-Cabanes | 18 February 1913[19] | – |
429 | Lt. R. G. D. Small, Leinster Regiment | 18 February 1913[19] | – |
430 | Julian B. Hall | 18 February 1913[19] | – |
431 | Lt. C. F. Lee, King's Royal Rifles | 18 February 1913[19] | – |
432 | Percy Maxwell Muller | 18 February 1913[19] | – |
433 | Wallace Prowse Hodgson | 18 February 1913[19] | – |
434 | 2nd Lt. R. A. Archer RFA | 4 March 1913[23] | – |
435 | 2nd Lt. Lanoe Hawker RE | 4 March 1913[23] | Awarded Victoria Cross for engaging three German aircraft on 25 July 1915. Killed in dogfight with Manfred von Richthofen on 23 November 1916. |
436 | 2nd Lt. D. J. McMullen RE | 4 March 1913[23] | – |
437 | Lt. C. E. H. Rathborne RMLI | 4 March 1913[23] | Later air commodore[24] |
438 | Sgt. William George Stafford | 18 March 1913[25] | – |
439 | Sgt. Edward J. Street | 18 March 1913[25] | – |
440 | Lt. Llewelyn C. Hordern | 18 March 1913[25] | – |
441 | 2nd Lt. Charles G. G. Bayly RE | 18 March 1913[25] | Pilot in No 5 Sqn. Along with his pilot on the day, 2nd Lt. Vincent Waterfall (RAeC 461), was shot down and killed nr Enghien, Belgium on 22nd August 1914 while on a reconnaissance flight. They were the first RFC officers to be killed in action. Both buried in the CWGC Cemetery in Tournai, Belgium. There is a memorial to them nr Labliau next to the site where their plane was brought down. |
442 | Eardley H. Lawford | 18 March 1913[25] | – |
443 | Sgt. H. E. Vagg | 18 March 1913[25] | – |
444 | Sgt. Joseph Kemper | 1 April 1913[26] | – |
445 | 1st Class Air Mechanic J. C. McNamara | 1 April 1913[26] | – |
446 | Leading Seaman Philip Ephraim Bateman RN | 1 April 1913[26] | – |
447 | Lt. Raymond Fitzmaurice RN | 1 April 1913[26] | – |
448 | Lt. W. F. Robertson Dobie | 1 April 1913[26] | – |
449 | Cmdr. Neville Usborne RNAS | 1 April 1913[26] | Used a Caudron Biplane at the Ewen School, Hendon. Died 21 February 1916 in an early parasite fighter experiment |
450 | Lt. Guy Blatherwick RN | 1 April 1913[26] | – |
451 | Lt. Wilfrid Picton-Warlow | 1 April 1913[26] | (1888–1914) Served with the Royal Flying Corps, killed in a flying accident on 20 December 1914 in a Blériot while returning home on leave from France to England. |
452 | Arthur B. Ashford Thomson | 1 April 1913[26] | – |
453 | Engine Room Artificer Herbert Hackney RN | 31 March 1913[27] | – |
454 | Capt. G. W. Vivian RN | 31 March 1913[27] | – |
455 | Leading Seaman G. R. Athlon | 1 April 1913[27] | – |
456 | Sgt. H. C. Wright RFC | 1 April 1913[27] | – |
457 | Lt. T. W. Mulcahy-Morgim, Royal Irish Fusiliers | 12 April 1913[27] | – |
458 | J. H. A. Landon | 12 April 1913[27] | – |
459 | J. H. G. Torr | 17 April 1913[27] | – |
460 | Sub-Lt. R. E. C. Peirse RNVR | 22 April 1913[27] | Later air chief marshal.[28] |
461 | 2nd Lt. V. Waterfall, East Yorks Regt. | 22 April 1913[27] | Using a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Pilot in No 5 Sqn. Along with his observer, Lt. Charles George Gordon Bayly, was shot down and killed nr Enghien, Belgium on 22nd August 1914 while on a reconnaissance flight. They were the first RFC officers (and 2nd Lt. V Waterfall the first pilot) to be killed in action. Both buried in the CWGC Cemetery in Tournai, Belgium. There is a memorial to them nr Labliau next to the site where their plane was brought down. |
462 | Richard Norton Wight | 22 April 1913[27] | R.N.Wight, flying an Avro Tractor Biplane for the first time, crashed following a side-slip while doing a circuit at Shoreham Aerodrome. Wight survived the crash but was unable to free himself from the wreckage before the fuel from the ruptured fuel tank caught fire; those on the scene pulled him free, but he subsequently died "from the effects of the fire".[29] |
463 | 2nd Lt. W. R. Read, KDG | 12 Apr 1913[30] | – |
464 | Sgt. Harold Victor Robbins | 22 April 1913[30] | – |
465 | Shipwright D. Shaw RN | 23 April 1913[30] | – |
466 | H. C. Tower | 23 April 1913[30] | – |
467 | Sgt. William Robert Bruce | 23 April 1913[30] | – |
468 | Com. Francis Rowland Scarlett RN | 24 April 1913[30] | First commandant of the RAF's No. 1 School of Technical Training |
469 | Lt. Francis John Leslie Cogan RFA | 30 April 1913[31] | – |
470 | 2nd Lt. Roger Marshall RFA (Reserve) | 30 April 1913[31] | – |
471 | 2nd Lt. Montagu Reaney Chidson RGA | 30 April 1913[31] | – |
472 | 2nd Lt. Cyril Cordon Hosking RFA | 30 April 1913[31] | – |
473 | Harry Stewart | 30 April 1913[31] | – |
474 | Thomas Alfred Rainey | 30 May 1913[31] | – |
475 | Sgt. John Mead | 30 May 1913[31] | – |
476 | Laurance Hugh Strain | 30 May 1913[31] | – |
477 | Frank George Andreae | 5 May 1913[31] | – |
478 | Major Neville John Gordon Cameron, Cameron Highlanders | 6 May 1913[31] | – |
479 | Lt. Ulick John Deane Bourke, 52nd Light Infantry | 9 May 1913[31] | – |
480 | John George Barron | 10 May 1913[31] | – |
481 | Lt. Francis George Brodribb RN | 13 May 1913[31] | Died in 1958 after being trapped in a machine in his laundry. |
482 | Robert Arthur King | 16 May 1913[31] | – |
483 | Lt. William Gore Sutherland Mitchell, 1st Highland Light Infantry | 17 May 1913[31] | Became Air Chief Marshal and was the first RAF officer to hold the post of Black Rod. |
484 | Major George Charleton Merrick RGA | 17 May 1913[31] | Major Merrick was flying a Short Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon, on 3 October 1913. When at a height of about 300 ft. he was observed to be descending at a very steep angle. Shortly after this, he fell out and was killed. The aircraft turned on its back and landed gently. Accident Report No. 18 considered that the accident was "due primarily to the pilot forcing the aircraft down at too steep an angle, resulting in his falling forward on his control and accentuating the steepness of the descent." It also drew attention to the fact that the pilot was not strapped in and thought it was "quite possible that, in this particular instance, had he been so, the accident might have been averted."[32] |
485 | Rene Louis Desoutter | 19 May 1913[33] | Brother of Marcel Desoutter |
486 | Lt. Greville Edward Gordon McClellan, Worcestershire Regiment | 20 May 1913[33] | – |
487 | Manuel Zubiaga | 20 May 1913[33] | – |
488 | Tone Hippolyte Bayetto | 22 May 1913[33] | (1892–1918) Blériot Monoplane at the Grahame-White School, Hendon. An engineer who later joined the Royal Flying Corps as a Sergeant pilot, commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1916. Injured when his Sopwith Pup was shot down by enemy aircraft and badly injured returned to England in 1917. Back on flying duties he was killed on 28 July 1918 when the wings of his Sopwith Dolphin E4449 folded back and it dived into the ground from 200 feet.[34] |
489 | Shipwright Charles Victor Lacey RN | 23 May 1913[33] | – |
490 | Staff-Surgeon Hardy Vesey Wells RN | 24 May 1913[33] | – |
491 | Richard Orr Paterson | 24 May 1913[33] | – |
492 | Lt. Paul Augustine Broder, 5th Worcestershire Regiment | 26 May 1913[33] | – |
493 | Pierre Gandillon | 26 May 1913[35] | – |
494 | Lt. William Charles Hicks RN | 27 May 1913[35] | – |
495 | Lt. Gordon Adams, South Lancashire Regt. | 29 May 1913[35] | – |
496 | 2nd Lt. A. A. Allen Knight, Royal Munster Fusiliers | 29 May 1913[35] | – |
497 | Capt. Francis Stuart Wilson RM | 29 May 1913[35] | – |
498 | Lt. Ambrose Gratton Power, Royal Munster Fusiliers | 2 June 1913[35] | – |
499 | Lt. Malcolm Wallace Duncan RA | 2 June 1913[35] | – |
500 | Assistant-Paymaster Charles Robert Finch Noyes RN | 29 May 1913[36] | – |
501 | Lt. H.D. Harvey-Kelly, Royal Irish Regt. | 30 May 1913[36] | First RFC pilot to land in France in the First World War. Shot down by Kurt Wolff and died of wounds in April 1917 |
502 | Naval Shipwright George Thomas Harvey Pack | 2 June 1913[36] | – |
503 | Lt. Arthur Bruce Gaskell RN | 2 June 1913[36] | – |
504 | Reginald Hugh Carr | 2 June 1913[36] | – |
505 | Lt. William George Sitwell RN | 3 June 1913[36] | – |
506 | Frank Widenham Goodden | 3 June 1913[36] | (1889–1917) Major in the Royal Flying Corps, died testing a prototype Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 at Farnbrough on 28 January 1917. |
507 | Frank Hudson | 3 June 1913[36] | – |
508 | Capt. George Marshall Griffith RGA | 3 June 1913[36] | – |
509 | Capt. Henry Fawcett RMLI | 3 June 1913[36] | – |
510 | Eric Bentley Bauman | 3 June 1913[36] | – |
511 | Joseph Raymond de Laplane | 12 June 1913[36] | – |
512 | Sub-Lt. Douglas Claude Strathearn Evill RN | 13 June 1913[36] | – |
513 | George Lancelot Gipps | 13 June 1913[36] | In 1914 G.L.Gipps was being instructed by Frederick Warren Merriam at Brooklands when the aircraft, which was fitted with dual controls, "suddenly banked steeply and, making a quarter-turn, nose dived to the ground from a height of about 50 ft.", killing Gipps and injuring Merriam. Merriam stated at the inquiry that he was "under the impression that [Gipps] was resisting his control". The Committee recommended "that in all dual controlled machines used for instructional purposes, means should be provided whereby the instructor can instantly disconnect the passenger's control."[37] |
514 | Francis Percy Adams | 13 June 1913[36] | – |
515 | William Birchenough | 13 June 1913[36] | – |
516 | Lt. Ronald Burns, Australian Commonwealth Military Forces | 13 June 1913[36] | – |
517 | 2nd Lt. Charles Francis Beevor, 18th QMO Hussars | 13 June 1913[36] | – |
518 | Lt. Edward Overend Priestley RN | 14 June 1913[36] | – |
519 | Sgt.-Maj. Albert Fletcher | 1 July 1913[38] | Later Air Commodore in the RAF[39] |
520 | Sgt.-Maj. Arthur Harold Measures | 16 June 1913[38] | – |
521 | Lt. George Hugh Vaus Hathorn RMLI | 16 June 1913[38] | – |
522 | Sgt. Charles Mullen | 16 June 1913[38] | – |
523 | 2nd Lt. Reginald Charles Hope Bewes | 17 June 1913[38] | – |
524 | Sgt. Charles Edward Jarvis | 17 June 1913[38] | – |
525 | Major William Sefton Brancker RFA | 18 June 1913[38] | Became an Air Vice-Marshal in the Royal Air Force and Director of Civil Aviation. Died in the crash of the R101 airship in France on 5 October 1930. |
526 | Edwin Prosser | 18 June 1913[38] | – |
527 | 2nd Lt. Mervyn Noott | 20 June 1913[38] | – |
528 | Capt. Andre Popovici | 21 June 1913[38] | Romanian |
529 | Lt. C. E. Maude RN | 26 June 1913[38] | – |
530 | Capt. Henry Hammond Shott DSO | 30 June 1913[38] | Awarded Distinguished Service Order for his services in South Africa during the Second Boer War.[40] |
531 | 2nd Lt. Arthur Victor Newton, Special Reserve | 30 June 1913[38] | – |
532 | Lt.-Col. Alexander Beamish Hamilton | 30 June 1913[38] | – |
533 | Lt. Augustus Willington Shelton Agar RN | 25 June 1913[41] | Awarded the Victoria Cross for an attack on the Bolshevik cruiser Oleg in Kronstadt harbour while in command of HM Coastal Motor Boat 4 on 17 June 1919.[42] |
534 | Lt. Arnold John Miley RN | 1 July 1913[41] | – |
535 | 2nd Lt. Ronald Falshaw Morkill, Special Reserve | 1 July 1913[41] | – |
536 | Lt. Edward Osmond RN | 1 July 1913[41] | – |
537 | William Thomas Warren | 1 July 1913[41] | – |
538 | 1st Class Air-Mechanic Henry Vaughan Jerrard | 2 July 1913[41] | – |
539 | Capt. Arthur Charles Barnby RMLI | 2 July 1913[41] | – |
540 | Lt. Richard Edward Orton, 1st East Lancashire Regt. | 2 July 1913[41] | – |
541 | 1st Class Air-Mechanic Frank Pratt | 3 July 1913[41] | – |
542 | Lt. Constantin Beroniade | 4 July 1913[41] | Romanian |
543 | Lt. Alexandru Pascanu | 4 July 1913[41] | Romanian |
544 | Thomas Wilfrid Elsdon | 8 July 1913[41] | – |
545 | Graham Elesmere Harris | 8 July 1913[41] | – |
546 | Sir Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, Bt. | 8 July 1913[41] | – |
547 | 2nd Lt. Albert Ernest Morgan, Special Reserve | 8 July 1913[41] | – |
548 | Lt. Arthur Courtney Boddam-Whetham, Reserve of Officers | 8 July 1913[41] | – |
549 | Sgt. Edward Ernest Porter | 9 July 1913[41] | – |
550 | Lt. Maurice John Ambler, 14th Hussars | 10 July 1913[41] | – |
551 | Lt. Henry Le Marchant Brock, Royal Warwickshire Regiment | 10 July 1913[41] | Later air commodore, RAF.[43] |
552 | Willoughby Montgomery Fane Pendlebury | 11 July 1913[41] | – |
553 | 2nd Lt. John Hugh Macdonald Stevenson | 11 July 1913[41] | – |
554 | Shipwright Charles Barry Snow | 12 July 1913[41] | – |
555 | Herbert Bradford | 14 July 1913[41] | – |
556 | Hubert Poyntz-Gaynor Leigh | 14 July 1913[41] | – |
557 | George Alfred John Blundell | 14 July 1913[41] | – |
558 | William Sterling Roberts | 3 July 1913[44] | – |
559 | 1st Class Air-Mechanic Charles R. Gallie | 12 July 1913[44] | – |
560 | Hans Rolshoven | 14 July 1913[44] | WWI pilot in German Naval Air Station Zeebrugge, 1 October 1917, CO of Seefrontstaffel I in Nieuwmunster, killed in accident 6 May 1918 |
561 | Col. Nevill Maskelyne Smyth VC | 16 July 1913[44] | – |
562 | Lt. Gordon Stuart Low RGA | 16 July 1913[44] | – |
563 | Robin Grey | 16 July 1913[44] | – |
564 | Edward Thomas Newton-Clare | 17 July 1913[44] | – |
565 | Bernard H. E. Howard | 19 July 1913[44] | – |
566 | Sub-Lt. Ian Hew Waldegrave Stair Dalrymple-Clark RNR | 19 July 1913[44] | – |
567 | Lt. Barry Fitzgerald Moore | 21 July 1913[44] | – |
568 | Robert Reginald Skene | 21 July 1913[44] | – |
569 | Lt. Arthur Cecil Herbert Adrian Eales IA | 21 July 1913[44] | – |
570 | J Capt. Bryan Charles Fairfax, Durham Light Infantry | 26 July 1913[44] | – |
571 | (unassigned?) | - | - |
572 | Able Seaman George Savill | 18 July 1913[45] | – |
573 | Sgt. William James Waddington | 28 July 1913[45] | – |
574 | E. L. M. Leveson-Gower | 4 August 1913[45] | – |
575 | Louis Arbon Strange | 5 August 1913[45] | – |
576 | Maxime Leverrier | 7 August 1913[45] | – |
577 | Leonhard Hubert Jagenberg | 9 August 1913[45] | – |
578 | S. J. V. Fill | 3 August 1913[46] | – |
579 | 1st Class Air-Mechanic William Smith | 5 August 1913[46] | – |
580 | 1st Class Air-Mechanic Frederick Dismore | 5 August 1913[46] | – |
581 | Frank Myles Temple Reilly | 5 August 1913[46] | – |
582 | Engine Room Artificer P. H. McCartan | 6 August 1913[46] | – |
583 | Sgt.-Major Albert Levick | 8 August 1913[46] | – |
584 | R. E. C. Penny | 9 August 1913[46] | – |
585 | 2nd Lt. Joseph Frederick Mead, Royal Fusiliers | 11 August 1913[46] | – |
586 | Shipwright William Cole | 13 August 1913[46] | – |
587 | Capt. Henry Cholmondeley Jackson, Bedfordshire Regiment | 13 August 1913[46] | – |
588 | Hereward de Havilland | 13 August 1913[47] | – |
589 | Lt. Napier Charles Gordon Cameron, H.M. Land Forces | 13 August 1913[46] | – |
590 | Surgeon Frederick George Hitch RN | 14 August 1913[46] | – |
591 | Donald William Clappen | 15 August 1913[46] | – |
592 | Lt. Charles Curtis Darley RA | 15 August 1913[46] | – |
593 | Gordon Tsoe Kwong Wong | 15 August 1913[46] | Chinese subject |
594 | Engine Room Artificer William Fleetwood Shaw | 15 August 1913[46] | – |
595 | Capt. Lewis Pugh Evans, Black Watch | 20 August 1913[46] | – |
596 | Richard Crofts Powell | 20 August 1913[46] | Photos of the cover and inside pages of Powell's licence, dated 20 August 1913, can be seen here. |
597 | Lt. Richard Edward Lewis, West India Regt. | 20 August 1913[46] | – |
598 | Henry Webb | 20 August 1913[46] | – |
599 | Capt. Cyril Francis Murphy, 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment | 20 August 1913[46] | – |
600 | Second Lt. Oswyn George William Gifford Lywood | 21 August 1913[46] | Air Vice-Marshal during World War II.[48] |
601 | Petty Officer James Claud Hendry RN | 20 August 1913[46] | – |
602 | Second Lt. B. M. B. Bateman RFA | 26 August 1913[46] | – |
603 | Lt. W. R. Crocker RN | 28 August 1913[46] | – |
604 | Sgt. F. E. Bishop RMA | 28 August 1913[46] | – |
605 | Lt. Lord George Wellesley, Grenadier Guards | 28 August 1913[46] | – |
606 | Lt. S. W. Smith, RFA (SR) | 29 August 1913[46] | – |
607 | Second Lt. Lord E. A. Grosvenor, H.M. Land Forces | 29 August 1913[46] | – |
608 | Capt. Cyril Percy Downer, Northants Regt. | 29 August 1913[46] | Died 10 March 1914 in an accident on Salisbury Plain while flying Vickers-built B.E.2 biplane no. 453 from the Central Flying School at RAF Upavon.[49] The Public Safety and Accident Investigation Committee of the Royal Aero Club found that the accident was "solely due to the steep and protracted descent of the aircraft followed by an attempt, due to inexperience, to flatten out too suddenly when descending at an excessive speed."[50] |
609 | Capt. L. E. O. Charlton, Lancashire Fusiliers | 29 August 1913[46] | – |
610 | J. C. Joubert de la Ferté | 29 August 1913[46] | – |
611 | Armourer's Mate Rowland Harper RN | 29 August 1913[46] | – |
612 | Capt. B. D. Fisher, 17th Lancers | 30 August 1913[46] | – |
613 | The Hon. F. W. L. Vernon | 30 August 1913[46] | – |
614 | Joseph James Bland | 30 August 1913[46] | (Hydro-aeroplane) |
615 | 2nd Lt. Howard Bertie Strong, Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment | 3 September 1913[51] | – |
616 | John William Wilfred Slack | 8 September 1913[51] | – |
617 | Vivian Gaskell Blackburn | 10 September 1913[51] | – |
618 | Walter Hugh Stewart Garnett | 10 September 1913[51] | – |
619 | 2nd Lt. Lambert Playfair, Royal Scots | 11 September 1913[51] | – |
620 | Lt. Nevile Morris Jenkins RA | 11 September 1913[51] | – |
621 | Lt. Hyacinth Joseph Albert Roche, Royal Munster Fusiliers | 12 September 1913[51] | – |
622 | Capt. Arthur James Ellis, South Wales Borderers | 12 September 1913[51] | – |
623 | Lt. Jack Armand Cuningham RFA | 12 September 1913[51] | – |
624 | Cecil Le de Spencer Wynne Roberts | 12 September 1913[51] | – |
625 | Francis Knox Haskins RN | 13 September 1913[51] | – |
626 | Colin Layzell-Apps | 13 September 1913[51] | – |
627 | Lt. Reginald John Bone RN | 16 August 1913[52] | – |
628 | Carpenter Warrant Officer Leonard Rupert Staddon | 12 September 1913[52] | – |
629 | Frederic George Bevis | 13 September 1913[52] | – |
630 | Engineer-Lt. Gerald West Storey Aldwell RN | 15 September 1913[52] | – |
631 | Engine Room Artificer Albert Edward Case | 17 September 1913[52] | – |
632 | Noel Pemberton Billing | 17 September 1913[52] | – |
633 | Wilfrid Watts | 17 September 1913[52] | – |
634 | Edward John Addis | 17 September 1913[52] | Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands. Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in 1918. |
635 | Capt. Francis A. Ferguson RE | 22 September 1913[52] | – |
636 | Petty Officer Frederick James Hooper | 22 September 1913[52] | – |
637 | E.R.A. Vivian Rees | 27 September 1913[52] | – |
638 | Capt. Geoffrey Henry Cox, SR | 27 September 1913[53] | – |
639 | Frank Bernard Halford | 2 October 1913[53] | (1894–1955) after service with the Royal Flying Corps became an aero-engine designer and chairman and technical director of de Havilland engines. Designer of the de Havilland Gipsy piston engine. |
640 | E. R. A. William Badley | 3 October 1913[53] | – |
641 | Sir Bryan B. M. Leighton, Bt. | 3 October 1913[53] | Born 26 November 1868. Of Loton Park, Shropshire. Lieutenant Colonel Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, served in First World War as Flying Officer, Royal Flying Corps; died 19 January 1919.[54][55] |
642 | Carpenter Michael Sullivan Keogh RN | 4 October 1913[53] | – |
643 | Ivan Beauclerk Hart-Davies | 6 October 1913[53] | – |
644 | Capt. George Henderson IA | 7 October 1913[53] | – |
645 | Lt. Roger Montague Boger RFA | 8 October 1913[53] | – |
646 | Christopher Draper | 9 October 1913[53] | – |
647 | Lt. Ennis Tristram Ratcliffe Chambers RN | 9 October 1913[53] | – |
648 | Lt. Gerard Lowndes Edward Sherlock, 3rd The King's Own Hussars | 9 October 1913[53] | – |
649 | Lt. Charles Bennett Spence RFA | 13 October 1913[53] | – |
650 | Willy Voigt | 15 October 1913[56] | – |
651 | Lt. Eric Roper-Curzon Nanson RNR | 15 October 1913[56] | – |
652 | Capt. Herbert Creagh Jenings, 5th Royal Irish Lancers | 16 October 1913[56] | – |
653 | Capt. Thomas Couper Mudie, Royal Scots | 16 October 1913[56] | – |
654 | Eng.-Lt. Charles Dempster Breese RN | 16 October 1913[56] | – |
655 | Leonard Cameron Kidd | 22 October 1913[56] | – |
656 | Assistant-Paymaster Vyvian Harcourt Coles RNR | 22 October 1913[56] | Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands.[57] Missing in Action 21 August 1918 after the Q-ship HMS Vala was sunk by U-Boat UB-54. |
657 | Capt. Gerald Charles Balfour Buckland, 8th Gurkha Rifles, IA | 22 October1913[56] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain.[58] |
658 | James William Humphrys Scotland | 23 October 1913[56] | New Zealand aviator used a Caudron Biplane at the Hall School, Hendon to be the second New Zealander to gain a licence in England.[59] In 1914 he made the first substantial cross-country flight in New Zealand. |
659 | Major Gerald Richard Vivian Kinsman RFA | 24 October 1913[56] | Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands.[60] Awarded a Distinguished Service Order and appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for his service during the First World War, died in 1963. |
660 | Reginald Kirshaw Pierson BSc | 24 October 1913[56] | An engineer, used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands.[61] Became chief designer at Vickers, designs include the Vimy and the Wellington. |
661 | Maurice Bernal Blake | 24 October 1913[56] | Born in Ireland the son of Henry Arthur Blake, he is described as an equerry to Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein. Used a Grahame-White Biplane at the Grahame-White School, Hendon.[62] Served with the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force and died in 1934. |
662 | Lt. Alexander Gallaher, 4th Dragoon Guards | 24 October 1913[56] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain.[63] |
663 | Lt. Keith Frederick William Dunn RFA | 24 October 1913[56] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain.[64] |
664 | Lt. Charles Herbert Oxlade RNR | 25 October 1913[56] | Used an EAC Biplane at the Eastbourne School, Eastbourne.[65] Killed in action when in command of the sloop HMS Arbutus which was torpedoed by a U Boat (UB-65) in The Bristol Channel 15 December 1917.[66] |
665 | Capt. Charles George Billing RM | 27 October 1913[56] | Used a Caudron Biplane at the Ewen School, Hendon.[67] Killed in action Gallipoli 13 June 1915.[68] |
666 | Lt. Charles Herbert Collet RMA | 21 October 1913[69] | Used an Avro Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.[70] Serving with the Royal Naval Air Service, on 22 September 1914 he was awarded the DSO for the first long distance air raid into enemy territory of the war, when he bombed the Zeppelin sheds at Düsseldorf.[71] He was killed at Imbros Island, Greece on 19 August 1915.[70][71] |
667 | Capt. Cecil Francis Kilner RMLI | 22 October 1913[69] | Used a B.E. Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.[72] Took part in the Cuxhaven Raid on Zeppelin sheds on Christmas Day, 1914. Died 20 October 1925 as a Royal Air Force Group Captain.[73][74] |
668 | Ordinary Telegraphist Robert Millar Stirling RN | 22 October 1913[69] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Naval School, Eastchurch.[75] |
669 | Warrant Officer Artificer Engineer William Foster Floyd RN | 24 October 1913[69] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Naval School, Eastchurch.[76] Killed in a flying accident in Essex, 21 January 1918.[77] |
670 | 2nd Lt. Ralph William Gore Hinds, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers | 31 October 1913[69] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands.[78] Killed in action in France 16 May 1915.[79] |
671 | Lt. William Foster MacNeece, 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Regt. | 31 October 1913[69] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands.[80] Served on the western front in the First World War as a pilot during 1914, he returned to England and specialised on balloons, he was seconded to the Royal Naval Air Service to train them in the operation of kite balloons. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1916 after his balloon was shot-down and he escaped by parachute, being badly injured. He retired from the Royal Air Force in 1937 as an Air Commodore and was recalled during the Second World War as an Air Vice-Marshal.[81] |
672 | Petty Officer James Fraser Grady RN | 1 November 1913[69] | Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.[82] |
673 | 1st Air Mechanic William Hedley Butt RFC | 1 November 1913[69] | Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.[83] |
674 | 1st Air Mechanic Ernest Edward Copper RFC | 1 November 1913.[69] | Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.[84] |
675 | Engine Room Artificer Hugh Nelson RN | 1 November 1913[69] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Naval School, Eastchurch.[85] |
676 | Lt. de Courcy Wyndor Plunkett Ireland RN | 1 November 1913[69] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Naval School, Eastchurch.[86] Was with the Royal Naval Air Service when he was killed 21 Feb 1916 near Rochester, Kent.[86][87] |
677 | Sgt. David Patterson RFC | 4 November 1913[69] | Used a Short Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.[88] |
678 | 2nd Lt. George John Malcolm RA | 5 November 1913[69] | Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands.[89] Killed in action in France 9 Jul 1916 flying with 20 Squadron RFC.[90] |
679 | Capt. Thomas Hugh Colville Frankland, Royal Dublin Fusiliers | 5 November1913[69] | Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands.[91] Killed in action at Gallipoli 25 April 1915.[92] |
680 | 2nd Lt. Sydney Harry Batty-Smith, 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regt. | 5 November 1913[69] | Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands.[93] He was the Aide-de-camp to the Governor of Hong Kong when he was killed 12 February 1945 and buried at Stanley Military Cemetery.[94] |
681 | Sub-Lt. John Douglas Harvey RN | 6 November 1913[69] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands.[95] |
682 | 2nd Lt. Marcus Winslow Huish RFA | 8 November 1913[69] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain.[96] |
683 | Acting-Lt. Rupert Healey Walley RNR | 21 October 1913[97] | Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.[98] |
684 | Chief-Armourer Charles Hart Whitlock RN | 1 November 1913[97] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Naval School, Eastchurch.[99] |
685 | Sgt. Fred Farrer RFC | 7 November 1913[97] | Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.[100] |
686 | Lt. The Hon. Herbert Lyttelton Pelham, 2nd Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment. | 11 November 1913[97] | Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands.[101] Killed in action France 14 September 1914.[102] |
687 | Lt. Hugh Frederic Treeby, West Riding Regt. | 16 November 1913[97] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands.[103] Died 19 March 1914 at Salisbury Plain. |
688 | 2nd Lt. William Ralph Elliot Harrison RFA | 21 November 1913[97] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain.[104] Also holds certificate #11184 awarded 21 June 1933 when he was a Lt Col at the War Office.[105] Harrison died from drowning when his yacht sank on 22 September 1934.[106] |
689 | Henry Spencer Newton Courtney | 22 November 1913[97] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain.[107] |
690 | Lt. Robert John Ferguson Barton, Royal Scots Fusiliers | 24 November 1913[97] | Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands.[108] |
691 | Sgt. James McCrae, RFC(MW) | 24 November 1913[109] | Used a Short Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.[110] |
692 | Shipwright Henry Herbert Scott RN | 24 November 1913[109] | Used a Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.[111] |
693 | Capt. Daniel Harrison Macdonell DSO | 25 November 1913[109] | A captain in the Northern Nigeria Regiment used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands.[112] Won the DSO in the South African War in the early 1900s and became a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. |
694 | Lt. Augustus Charles Earle Marsh | 26 November 1913[109] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Salisbury Plain.[113] Claimed the first confirmed RFC victory in the First World War when with 6 Squadron he shot down a "Fokker" on 1 November 1914. |
695 | Lt. Cedric Yeats McDonald, Seaforth Highlanders | 27 November 1913[109] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands.[114] |
696 | 2nd Lt. Gerald Henry Broadhurst RFA | 29 November 1913[109] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands.[115] Missing in action in Flanders 8 May 1915.[116] |
697 | Owen Bulmer Howell | 29 November 1913[109] | Described as a Soliciter, used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands.[117] Served in the Royal Naval Air Service. |
698 | John Marten Rush Cripps | 2 December 1913[109] | Used a Grahame-White Biplane at the Grahame-White School, Hendon.[118] Served in the Royal Naval Air Service. |
699 | Rolf Gustav Ugo von Segebaden | 7 December 1913[119] | Swedish aviator used a Grahame-White Biplane at the Grahame-White School, Hendon.[120] |
700 | Capt. Maurice George Lee, 40th Pathans, IA | 8. December 1913[119] | New Zealand-born aviator used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands.[121] |
701 | Sgt. Duncan Mitchell RFC | 11. December 1913[119] | Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon. |
702 | Capt. Basil Henri Louis Hay | 11. December 1913[119] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School at Salisbury Plain and Brooklands.[122] |
703 | Harold Richard Johnson | 11. December 1913[119] | Described as a motor engineer used a Caudron Biplane at the Ewen School, Hendon.[123] Killed in action in France 19 January 1916 in a flying accident with 3 Squadron RFC.[124] |
704 | Norman Howarth | 11. December 1913[119] | Described as an engineer used a Grahame-White Biplane at the Grahame-White School, Hendon.[125] |
705 | Second Lt. Thomas Leonard Stanley Holbrow RE | 13. December 1913[119] | Used a Caudron Biplane at the Ewen School, Hendon.[126] Killed in action in France 28 March 1918.[127] |
706 | William Henry Elliott | 22 November 1913[128] | Used an Avro Biplane at the Shoreham Flying School, Shoreham.[129] |
707 | Sgt. John Roland Gardiner RFC | 11 Dec 1913[128] | Used a Short Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon.[130] |
708 | Ian Cameron Macdonell | 17 December 1913[128] | Canadian aviator and described as an engineer used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands.[131] Killed in action in France 2 July 1916.[131] |
709 | Sir Robert George Vivian Duff | 18 December 1913[128] | Listed by the RAeC as Robin George Duff, used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands.[132] Killed in action in Belgium 16 October 1914.[133] |
710 | James Leonard Finney | 19 December 1913[128] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands.[134] |
711 | Capt. Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding RA | 20 December 1913[128] | Used a Vickers Biplane at the Vickers School, Brooklands.[135] Flew with the Royal Flying Corps and later Royal Air Force, He was the commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. Retired as an Air Vice Marshal in 1942 and became Baron Dowding of Bentley Priory. Died in 1970 aged 87. |
712 | Sgt. Frederick George Bateman RFC | 20 December 1913[128] | Used a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Royal Flying Corps, Netheravon.[136] |
713 | Lt. Charles Edward Ridgway Bridson, 3rd Battalion, King's Own Regiment | 20 December 1913[128] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Brooklands.[137] Died in Belgium 4 April 1916 aged 25.[138] |
714 | Sub-Lt. Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet RN | 22 December 1913[128] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School at Salisbury Plain and Brooklands.[139] Retired in 1945 as a Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal and became the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man until 1952, he died in 1983. |
715 | Lt. Rowland Edward Brian Hunt | 22 December 1913[128] | Used an EAC Biplane at the Eastbourne Aviation School. Eastbourne.[140] |
716 | Lt. Edmund Digby Maxwell Robertson RN | 22 December 1913[128] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School at Brooklands.[141] Later flew with the Royal Air Force and retired in 1935 as an Air Commodore, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1919.[142] |
717 | Andrew Delfosse Badgery | 22 December 1913[128] | Australian-born aviator used a Caudron Biplane at the Ewen School, Hendon.[143] Flew with the Australian Flying Corps from 1916 to 1918. Was married to Dorothy Wall an author and illustrator of children's fiction books. |
718 | Lt. Robert Crosby Halahan RN | 24 December 1913[128] | Used a Bristol Biplane at the Bristol School, Salisbury Plain.[144] Killed in action June 1916 in North Sea with the loss of Submarine E18. |
719 | Cecil Francis Webb | 31 December 1913[128] | Described as an engineer and draughtsman he used a Grahame-White Biplane at the Grahame-White School at Hendon.[145] |
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