... propose that, for the present, candidates for commissions in the Royal Flying Corps should first have obtain their Royal Aero Club certificate, and on being accepted member# the corps, should receive the sum £75, and that small rent should paid to the ...

... suite were Lieut.-Colonel Alan Fletcher. aide-de-camp to Sir Douglas Hang, and General Sir Arthur K.C-8., of the Royal Army Medical Corps. The shcok hands with various officers and officials! whilst the Queen greeted the Prince Wales, who throughout the ...

... of seaplane accident in Southampton water on Thursday, the observer of the seaplane has since succumbed to his injuries. At the inquest Saturday on the two viotims, the pilot and the observer, verdict of accidental death was returned. Notices having been ...

... foreign States not represented bv Royal personages, the Premier and Mrs Asqrnth, the Duchess Devonshire, the Countess of Minto, members the Royal suite and Foreign Offioe officials. Prince Lotus of Battenberg. the Princess Royal with the Duke of Fife and their ...

... DIVE TO DEATH, GRAPHIC ACCOUNTS OF AERIAL TRAGEDY. The inquest was opened the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, on Saturday, Lieutenant Thomas Sc holes Cress well, of the- Royal : Marine Light Infantry, one of the victims of • the naval seaplane disaster on ...

... AIRCRAFT WAR. PROGRESS OF THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS. A Parliamentary paper was issued last night containing a memorandum* naval and military aviation, showing the progress made by the Royal Flying Corps during the first year its existence. The paper states ...

... the war. After a period of active service with the Gordons on the Western front, was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, being gazetted as observer flying officer in October of last year, his appointment dating from the 25th of that month. Only recently ...

... particulars have now been received (says th© Times) of the death of Lieutenant Lambert Playfair (St. Andrews), Ist Royal Scots and Royal Flying Corps, who lost his life in a fight in the air on July 6. When in signalling to our guns the position of the German ...

... question was one belonging to fee military wing of the Royal Flying Corps, which was being flown from where it had been sent for repairs. The pilot charge was not officer of the Royal Flying Corps. ...

... warfare of the future was demonstrated Salisbury Plain yesterday, when the pilots No. squadron the Royal Flying Corps came under fire whilst _ the Royal Hoise Artillery were discharging shells and shrapnel across Knighton Down. Th« pilots started off from ...

... pilots and observers for their plucky work in co-operation with the artillery, in photography, and the bomb attacks on the enemy' 6 railways, which were of great value interrupting his communications. Throughout these operations the Royal Flying Corps have ...

... Engineers and Royal Flying Corps, is missing Major Hawker was born in December, 1890, and passed out of Woolwich into the Corps Royal Engineers in July, 1911. In the October following the outbreak war he transferred to the Royal Flying ...