5 Elementary Flying Training School at Narromine, New South Wales, on 21 December. Promoted to wing commander, he took over No. 1 Service Flying Training School at RAAF Point Cook, Victoria, from Group Captain John McCauley on 7 July 1941. In October, King was promoted to acting group captain and posted to command the newly established Station Headquarters Point Cook.
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5 Elementary Flying Training School at Narromine, New South Wales, on 21 December. Promoted to wing commander, he took over No. 1 Service Flying Training School at RAAF Point Cook, Victoria, from Group Captain John McCauley on 7 July 1941. In October, King was promoted to acting group captain and posted to command the newly established Station Headquarters Point Cook.
Elwyn Roy King | Interbellum and World War II
Elwyn Roy King, DSO, DFC (13 May 1894 – 28 November 1941) was a fighter ace in the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) during World War I. He achieved twenty-six victories in aerial combat, making him the fourth highest-scoring Australian pilot of the war, and second only to Harry Cobby in the AFC. A civil pilot and engineer between the wars, he served in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) from 1939 until his death. Born in Bathurst, New South Wales, King initially saw service as a lighthorseman in Egypt in 1916. He transferred to the AFC as a mechanic in January 1917, and was subsequently commissioned as a pilot.
Elwyn Roy King | Introduction
Following the end of hostilities, No. 4 Squadron joined the British Army of Occupation at Bickendorf, near Cologne, Germany, in December 1918. The unit returned to England in March 1919, and King sailed with it back to Australia aboard RMS "Kaisar-i-Hind" on 6 May. He left the AFC on 11 August 1919 in Melbourne, before gaining employment as an air courier for Larkin-Sopwith Aviation Co. of Australasia Ltd, which had been co-founded by fighter ace Herbert Larkin. While working for Larkin-Sopwith, King refused an appointment in the newly established Australian Air Corps (AAC)—forerunner of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)—because it had not then offered a commission to Frank McNamara, VC.
Elwyn Roy King | Interbellum and World War II
Initially considered for general flying duties, he was assigned training commands commencing in the new year. On 2 January 1940, he became the inaugural commanding officer of No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School (No. 3 EFTS) in Essendon, Victoria. Part of Australia's contribution to the Empire Air Training Scheme, No. 3 EFTS initially comprised a significant civilian presence, many of the aircraft and staff under King's control being from private airline companies and the Royal Victorian Aero Club; by July, all private machines had been pressed into RAAF service and the civilian element largely disappeared. King assumed command of No.
Elwyn Roy King | Interbellum and World War II
Ltd, King was reported as having safely flown 2,000 passengers and throughout Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. He soon left the aviation business to go into partnership with another pilot, T.T. Shipman, founding Shipman, King and Co. Pty Ltd. Importing and building machinery, the company was successful and allowed King to take up the restoration and racing of motor vehicles. He married Josephine Livingston, twenty, at St John's Anglican Church, Camberwell, on 31 March 1925. The couple had a son and a daughter. In December 1939, soon after the outbreak of World War II, King joined the RAAF as a squadron leader.
Elwyn Roy King | Interbellum and World War II
In a letter to the AAC selection committee on 30 January 1920, he wrote "I feel I must forfeit my place in favor "(sic)" of this very good and gallant officer"; McNamara received a commission in the AAC that April. King's career with Larkin-Sopwith involved many pioneering flights. In 1920 alone, flying a Sopwith Gnu, he was credited with making the first aerial deliveries of mail and newspapers to various cities in eastern Australia, and with making the first aircraft landing at several townships in southern Queensland. He also competed in air races. By April 1922, working with Larkin-Sopwith's successor, Larkin Aircraft Supply Co.
Elwyn Roy King | Interbellum and World War II
He was also belatedly mentioned in despatches in July 1919 for his wartime service.
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
Posted to No. 4 Squadron, he saw action on the Western Front flying Sopwith Camels and Snipes. He scored seven of his "kills" in the latter type, more than any other pilot. His exploits earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Distinguished Service Order, and a mention in despatches. Returning to Australia in 1919, King spent some years in civil aviation before co-founding a successful engineering business. He joined the RAAF following the outbreak of World War II and held several training commands, rising to the rank of group captain shortly before his sudden death in November 1941 at the age of forty-seven.
Elwyn Roy King | Introduction
71 (Australian) Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, by the British) as an air mechanic on 18 April. He was assigned to a training squadron for flying instruction in August. On 15 October, he gained his wings and officer's commission. Allocated to No. 4 Squadron in November 1917, King was posted to France for active duty on 21 March 1918. The same day, the Germans launched Operation Michael, the opening phase of the Spring Offensive.
Elwyn Roy King | Early service
This made him second only to Harry Cobby as the most successful ace in the AFC, as well as the fourth most successful of all the Australian aces in the war (his top-scoring compatriots, Robert Little and Roderic (Stan) Dallas, flew with the British Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force). King was recommended for a bar to his DFC, which was upgraded to the Distinguished Service Order and awarded on 3 June 1919. The recommendation noted his victories in the air and described him as having "proved himself a very brilliant patrol leader" and as "a magnificent example at all times to all pilots in the Squadron by his keenness on the ground and gallantry in the air which was of the highest possible order".
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
On 5 October 1915, King embarked for Egypt aboard HMAT "Themistocles", as part of the reinforcements for the 12th Regiment of the 4th Light Horse Brigade. He joined the 12th Light Horse at Heliopolis in February 1916, as the unit was reassembling following its service in the Gallipoli Campaign. The regiment was engaged in the defence of the Suez Canal during May, and subsequently undertook patrols and sorties in the Sinai Desert. King transferred to the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) on 13 January 1917, and was posted to Britain to join No. 4 Squadron AFC (also referred to as No.
Elwyn Roy King | Early service
His youngest brother Francis, who served as a flying officer with No. 30 Squadron in New Guinea, died in an aircraft crash on 31 May 1943.
Elwyn Roy King | Death and legacy
During October 1918, King converted with the rest of No. 4 Squadron to the upgraded Sopwith Snipe, whose larger cockpit was a better fit for him. He scored with the Snipe on both 28 and 29 October, the latter over Tournai, in what is frequently described as "one of the greatest air battles of the war". At Tournai, amid a confrontation involving over seventy-five Allied and German fighters, King evaded five enemy Fokkers that dived on him, before destroying an LVG in a head-on attack. The next day, he downed three Fokker D.VIIs, two without firing a shot. As he zoomed up from shooting one out of control, he cut off another.
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
King died unexpectedly of cerebral oedema on 28 November 1941, aged 47. Survived by his wife and children, he was cremated at Fawkner Crematorium, Melbourne. His funeral service at South Yarra was attended by hundreds of mourners from the military and civil aviation world, including the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett, and a representative of the Minister for Air; the pallbearers included Air Vice Marshal Henry Wrigley, Air Commodore Raymond Brownell, Group Captain Allan Walters, and Wing Commander Henry Winneke. Elwyn Roy King's name appears on panel 97 in the Commemorative Area of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
Elwyn Roy King | Death and legacy
The award, promulgated in "The London Gazette" on 3 December, cited his "gallant and valuable service in bombing and attacking with machine gun fire enemy billets, trains, troops etc", during which "he ensure[d] success by descending to low altitudes, disregarding personal danger". On 16 September, following a lull in aerial combat in the region, King destroyed a Fokker biplane over Lille. Around this time he was promoted to captain and flight commander. He took over "A" Flight from Cobby, who had been posted to England. By the end of September, King's tally was eighteen. He registered his final victory in a Camel on 2 October, when he used bombs to send down his fourth balloon.
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
Later that month he shot down two more aircraft, a Pfalz and a two-seat LVG, in the Lys region. King registered his fifth victory, an LVG, after raiding Armentières on 25 July 1918. Four days later, he led a flight of six Camels from No. 4 Squadron escorting Airco DH.9 light bombers of the Royal Air Force in another raid on Armentières. In an action that the Australian official history highlighted as an "example of cool and skilful air fighting", the DH.9s completed their bombing mission while the Camels drove off an attacking force of at least ten German Fokkers, three of the Australians including King claiming victories, without any Allied losses.
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
He destroyed a German two-seater on 3 August and another the following day, sharing the second with Herbert Watson. No. 4 Squadron was heavily engaged in the Allies' great offensive on the Western Front, launched with the Battle of Amiens on 8 August. King was credited with two victories—a balloon and an LVG—near Estaires during a bombing raid on 10 August. On 12 and 13 August, the Camels of No. 4 Squadron operated in a massed formation over Flanders with the S.E.5s of No. 2 Squadron AFC, the former's two flights led by Cobby and King, and the latter's by Adrian Cole and Roy Phillipps.
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
This second Fokker pulled up to avoid collision and toppled onto a third Fokker. One of the war's last air battles took place near Leuze on 4 November. King's destruction of two D.VIIs in the space of five minutes, the latter in flames, capped his combat career. His tally of seven victories with the Snipe in the closing days of the war made him the highest-scoring pilot in this type. King's final wartime score of twenty-six included six aircraft driven down out of control, thirteen aircraft and four balloons destroyed, and three other aircraft destroyed in victories shared with other airmen.
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
No. 4 Squadron was operating its Sopwith Camels in hazardous, low-altitude support of Australian ground troops when King arrived in France, and he had little opportunity for air-to-air combat. The burly King—nicknamed "Bo", "Beau", or "Bow"—also had problems landing the Camel; crammed into its small cockpit, his large frame impeded control stick movement. The resulting rough landings annoyed his commanding officer, Major Wilfred McCloughry, brother of ace Edgar McCloughry. King's friend and fellow No. 4 Squadron pilot, Harry Cobby, recalled that "there was some speculation that he might go home—but he proved himself an impressive pilot". Cobby often took King on "special missions" to make mischief with the Germans; No.
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
Pickings were scarce and No. 4 Squadron's only success came on the second day when King and his flight collectively destroyed a two-seat Albatros. On 16 August 1918, King participated in a major assault against the German airfield at Haubourdin, near Lille, that resulted in thirty-seven enemy aircraft being destroyed on the ground. During the action, described by the official history as a "riot of destruction", King set on fire a hangar housing four or five German planes. He also, according to No. 2 Squadron pilot Charles Copp, flew down Haubourdin's main street, waving as he went, his reason being that "the girls in that village must have had a heck of a time with all that bombing and must have been terribly scared so I thought I'd cheer them up a bit".
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
By this time the Lille sector was largely clear of German fighters. The official history recorded that on 25 August, "King went out alone as far as Don railway station, bombed it, machine-gunned a train, and returned among the low clouds—all without seeing any enemy". The only contact around this time was on 30 August, when King, Thomas Baker and another pilot shot down two DFWs near Laventie. On 1 September, King destroyed an observation balloon over Aubers Ridge. Three days later he shot down an LVG after attacking a train near Lille with Cobby. He was recommended for the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) on 8 September.
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
4 Squadron found that two-man patrols were generally able to lure enemy aircraft into a fight, whereas larger formations tended to deter engagements. On 14 May 1918, King shot down a two-seat German scout that was spotting for artillery between Ypres and Bailleul, but clouds prevented him from confirming its destruction. By 20 May, he had been credited with his first aerial victory, over a Pfalz D.III near Kemmel–Neuve Église. He was promoted to lieutenant on 1 June. On 20 June, he destroyed a German balloon over Estaires; although vulnerable to attack with incendiary bullets, these large observation platforms were generally well protected by fighters and anti-aircraft defences, and were thus considered a dangerous but valuable target.
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
Captain Cecil Frederick King, (19 February 1899 – 24 January 1919), was a World War I fighter ace credited with 22 aerial victories.
Cecil Frederick King | Introduction
Roy King was born on 13 May 1894 at The Grove, near Bathurst, New South Wales. He was the son of English-born Elizabeth Mary (Miller) King and Richard King, an Australian labourer. The youth attended public school, and further educated himself in mechanical engineering via correspondence. Having been employed repairing bicycles, automobiles, and farming equipment, he was living in Forbes and working as a motor mechanic when he joined the Australian Imperial Force under the name Roy King on 20 July 1915.
Elwyn Roy King | Early life
Kinghorn enlisted with the AIF in June 1915 and served during World War I in Egypt and Lemnos with the Dental Corps and with the Field Artillery Brigade, mostly as a driver, but after receiving a severe knee injury in December 1917 was repatriated to Australia, and was discharged as permanently medically unfit in July 1918. He was to serve as recruiting officer for the 2nd AIF during the Second World War. He returned to the Australian Museum in 1918 and was appointed zoologist in charge of reptiles and amphibians; three years later birds were added to his portfolio. He was appointed Assistant Director of the Australian Museum around 1951 and retired in 1956.
James Roy Kinghorn | Wartime and later career
He was also later awarded the King George VI Coronation Medal and Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.
Roy Inwood | World War II
Between World War I and World War II, King held several important assignments including that of instructor in both the Army and Navy War Colleges. In 1940 he was sent to the Philippines where he was promptly promoted to Brigadier General; he served as General Douglas MacArthur's second highest ranking ground officer, after General Jonathan Wainwright.
Edward P. King | Early military career
Donald Ernest Kingaby, (7 January 1920 – 31 December 1990) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) aviator and flying ace of the Second World War. He was the only person to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal three times. During an operational career of some 300 operations, Kingaby scored 21 air victories against enemy aircraft, as well as two shared victories, six probables and 11 damaged during the war. 14 of his solo victories came against the Messerschmitt Bf 109.
Donald Kingaby | Introduction
Later he performed similar duties in the Allied Expeditionary Air Force for the Normandy landings.
Donald Randell Evans | Second World War
He remained Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College, Durham University, for 24 years from 1921 to 1945.
William Lindsay Renwick | Interwar years
He had a distinguished record in both world wars, serving from 1914 to 1920 in World War I. Though it could be pointed out that his entire first class cricket career occurring during the war, so perhaps he wasn't entirely on the money. Sir Edmund served in the Middle East in 1940-41 in World War II, in which he rose to the rank of Lt-Col. in the Australian Army Medical Corps.
Edmund Britten Jones | War Record
Phillipps relinquished command of No. 6 Squadron upon its disbandment in March 1919. He returned to Australia on 16 June aboard the troopship "Kaiser-i-Hind", and was discharged from the Australian Flying Corps on 15 August. That month he was one of several veteran pilots, including Lieutenant Colonel Oswald Watt and Major Bill Anderson, appointed to serve on a committee examining applications for a proposed Australian air service to replace the AFC; the Australian Air Corps, immediate precursor to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), was duly formed on 1 January 1920 under Anderson's command. After leaving the military, Phillipps became a grazier in New South Wales.
Roy Phillipps | Interwar years and World War II
Not long after the outbreak of World War II, he spent two years serving in the Home Guard, under the command of his father. He was enlisted into the army in December 1942. He served in the King's Own Royal Regiment, leading his comrades to remark that "he even has his own regiment!".
Ray King (footballer) | Early life
Godfrey transferred from the Royal Flying Corps to the newly created Royal Canadian Air Force after World War I, and won an Air Force Cross. By the beginning of World War II, he was serving at the Imperial Defence College as a Group Captain. He attained the rank of Air Vice-Marshal during World War II before retiring in 1944.
Albert Earl Godfrey | Later military career
Air Vice Marshal Charles Humphrey Kingsman Edmonds, (20 April 1891 – 26 September 1954) was air officer of the Royal Air Force (RAF). He first served in the Royal Navy and was a naval aviator during the First World War, taking part in the Cuxhaven Raid in December 1914; and while serving in the Gallipoli Campaign (1915) he was the first man to sink an enemy ship from an aircraft, using a torpedo. In the interbellum he remained in the RAF, becoming a senior staff officer during World War II.
Charles Edmonds | Introduction
Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Grimsley King, DSO (22 September 1918 – 2009) was an officer of the Australian Army during the Second World War.
Gordon Grimsley King | Introduction
See also Aerial victory standards of World War I
Roy McConnell (RAF officer) | List of aerial victories
After the war, King completed interrupted studies at the University of Kansas, from which he graduated with his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering in January 1946. He accepted a regular Army commission in United States Army Corps of Engineers, and was a group commander at the Aviation Engineers Training School at Fort Francis E. Warren in Wyoming. He transferred to the United States Air Force when it became a separate service in 1947. King completed a training course on guided missiles at Fort Bliss, Texas, and was assigned to the newly formed Joint Long Range Proving Ground at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida.
William G. King Jr. | Postwar military career
Lieutenant General Royal Newman "King" Baker (November 27, 1918 – May 1, 1976) was a United States Air Force flying ace during the Korean War. He accrued 13 victories in the war. Baker was one of the few military aviators who flew operationally in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.
Royal N. Baker | Introduction
Wing Commander Edward Duncan Crundall (9 December 1896 – 1980s) was an officer of the British Royal Air Force, who served in World War I, becoming flying ace credited with seven aerial victories, and also in World War II.
Edward Crundall | Introduction
King joined the Royal Flying Corps in February, 1917. In the fall of 1917, he was assigned to No. 43 Squadron RFC to fly Sopwith Camels. In conjunction with fellow ace Lieutenant William MacLanachan, he drove down an Albatros D.III out of control on 12 November 1917. King did not score again until February 1918; in the latter half of the month, he ran off a string of three more enemy craft driven down out of control, then became an ace by destroying an Albatros D.V on the 26th. By March 1918, he had advanced to B Flight Commander. On 22 March 1918, he was awarded the Military Cross.
Cecil Frederick King | Aerial service
Edward Postell King Jr. (July 4, 1884 – August 31, 1958) was a Major General in the United States Army who gained prominence for leading the defense of the Bataan Peninsula in the Battle of Bataan against the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in World War II.
Edward P. King | Introduction
From 1940 to 1942, Weyand was assigned to active duty and served with the 6th Field Artillery. He graduated from the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in 1942 and served as adjutant of the Harbor Defense Command in San Francisco from 1942 to 1943. He moved on to the Office of the Chief of Intelligence for the US War Department General Staff in 1944. He became assistant chief of staff for intelligence in the China-Burma-India Theater from 1944 to 1945. In the immediate aftermath of the war he was in the Military Intelligence Service in Washington, D.C.
Frederick C. Weyand | World War II, Korean War and interbellum
Goldie was a lieutenant in the Royal Marine Light Infantry in the conflict. (His elder brother Maurice held a commission in the same Corps during the war).
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He moved on to become military assistant and executive to the Secretary of the Army from 1954 to 1957. He then graduated from the Army War College in 1958, moving on to command the 3d Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, in Europe (1958–1959). He served in the Office of the United States Commander in Berlin in 1960 then became chief of staff for the Communications Zone, United States Army, Europe from 1960 to 1961. He was the deputy chief and chief of legislative liaison for the Department of the Army from 1961 to 1964.
Frederick C. Weyand | World War II, Korean War and interbellum
Harrison began a long association with engineering and air safety when he was posted to Britain for secondment to the Aeronautical Inspection Directorate following the end of World War I. He transferred as a flight lieutenant (honorary squadron leader) to the newly formed Australian Air Force in March 1921, becoming one of its twenty-one founding officers; the prefix "Royal" was added to the service's name in August that year. Dissatisfied with his RAAF rank considering his leading position in the pre-war Central Flying School, Harrison appealed for greater seniority. As a result, he was appointed Air Liaison Officer to the Air Ministry in London, with promotion to the substantive rank of squadron leader.
Eric Harrison (RAAF officer) | Interbellum and World War II
After shipping to the British Isles, McConnell underwent aviation training that began on 14 September 1917 at Turnhill, England. After completion of training, he was assigned to No. 46 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps on 11 November 1917. He would not score his first aerial victory until 23 March 1918. By 8 September 1918, he had run his string to seven wins. On 16 September 1918, he was withdrawn from combat and posted to the Home Establishment in England. He was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross on 28 September 1918.
Roy McConnell (RAF officer) | World War I
He served as an adviser to the War Department during World War II.
Roy Wilkins | Early career
Warman was a civil engineer before World War I. He enlisted in the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in Canada on 5 September 1914. They sailed for England in January 1915. Warman's duty with them took him through the Second Battle of Ypres, where he was wounded. After recovery, he was involved in suppressing the Easter Rebellion in Ireland. He then transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in summer 1916. He was so skillful that when he finished pilot training, they temporarily retained him as an instructor. Not until June 1917 was he assigned to a combat squadron, No. 23, to fly a Spad VII.
Clive Wilson Warman | World War I
Wing Commander William Roy Irwin was a Canadian-born World War I flying ace credited with 11 aerial victories. In the process of becoming an ace, he rose as far as the rank of captain. During World War II, he returned to service, reached the rank of Wing Commander, and won an OBE.
William Roy Irwin | Introduction
Roy Cecil Phillipps, MC & Bar, DFC (1 March 1892 – 21 May 1941) was an Australian fighter ace of World War I. He achieved fifteen victories in aerial combat, four of them in a single action on 12 June 1918. A grazier between the wars, he joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1940 and was killed in a plane crash the following year. Born in New South Wales but raised in Western Australia, Phillipps joined the Australian Imperial Force as an infantryman in April 1915, seeing action at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. Wounded twice in 1916, he transferred to the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) and was accepted for pilot training in May 1917.
Roy Phillipps | Introduction
After recovering from his injuries he trained as a pilot, being granted Royal Aero Club Aviator's Certificate No. 2664 after soloing a Maurice Farman biplane at the Military School, Farnborough, on 31 March 1916. He was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant the next day, 1 April, and on 15 May was appointed a flying officer.
Alan Duncan Bell-Irving | World War I
In 1944, he took command of No. 342 Wing in Burma.
Neville Ramsbottom-Isherwood | Second World War
He achieved a lieutenancy during the First World War.
Roy Homewood | World War 1
King was selected for staff training, and was one of the first students to pass through the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham Technical Staff course in 1946; he was then granted a regular commission as a lieutenant in the Wiltshire Regiment on 22 February 1947 (with seniority from 7 November 1941), and he was subsequently promoted to captain from the same date (with seniority from 1 July 1946). 1947 also saw his marriage to Joy Emily Ellen Taylor-Lane. In 1950 he passed the General Staff course at Staff College, Camberley, he also qualified as pilot, He was promoted major on 7 May 1953 (with seniority from 9 March 1953).
Frank King (British Army officer) | Post-war
Lieutenant Cecil Roy Richards was an Australian flying ace of World War I. He was credited with twelve aerial victories.
Cecil Roy Richards | Introduction
His first role was as the character Lieutenant Teiss in the World War II film "Battleground", starring Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, and future U.S. Senator George Murphy. The next year he played Al 'Kid' Beaumont in "State Penitentiary", a drama starring Warner Baxter as a former aircraft manufacturer wrongfully accused and imprisoned for embezzling $400,000. King was then cast in 1951 as First Lieutenant Ernie Stark in the John Wayne and Robert Ryan film "Flying Leathernecks," which focuses on the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942. That same year he played Milo Pagano in the war film "A Yank in Korea", starring Lon McCallister.
Brett King | Early life and film career
"Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920." Christopher F. Shores, Norman L. R. Franks, Russell Guest. Grub Street, 1990. , .
Robert Kenneth Whitney | References
Evans was posted to No. 5 Flying Training School at RAF Sealand for administrative duties on 4 January 1938.
Dudley Lloyd-Evans | Inter-war period
He was also in service during World War II; he was commissioned a Flying Officer in the RAF Reserve on 12 December 1939.
Owen Baldwin | World War I
Among his pupils was Gordon Langford, whose surname was originally Colman (and who changed the name on Demuth's advice). Other pupils included King Palmer, Hugh Shrapnel and Bob Simans.
Norman Demuth | In between the World Wars
Gulick also was transferred to that department and remained there until June 1948.
Roy M. Gulick | World War II and later service
Despite being in a reserved occupation, he joined the Royal Air Force in 1940. He became an armaments officer and spent much of the war in the NW Frontier area of India (Waziristan, now in Pakistan) defusing unexploded bombs. He was mentioned in dispatches for activity in the relief of Datta Khel. Later in the war he worked for the Inter-Services Research Bureau, a cover name for Special Operations Executive (SOE), an organisation responsible for sabotage in enemy-occupied territory, with A.G. Ogston, under the leadership of E. Gordon Cox, applying plant and medical chemistry, and developing unusual equipment.
Kenneth Callow | War service 1940 – 1945
During the war Ensor also recorded scenes of troop training, of oil drilling and of anti-aircraft and coastal defences.
Arthur John Ensor | World War Two
The contribution of such men to the outcome of the Battle of Britain was incalculable.' During the war he continued to take part in films, for example as a German bomber chief in "The Lion Has Wings" (1939), as Mons. Besnard in "At the Villa Rose" (1940) and as Sir Charles Fawcett in "The Foreman Went to France" (1942).
Ronald Adam (actor) | Second World War
He was present at the funeral of King George V on 28 January 1936.
William Welsh (RAF officer) | Interwar years
Irwin was a high school teacher in Saskatchewan until the beginning of World War II. He then joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, underwent refresher training, and became an instructor at No. 3 Elementary Flying School at Yorkton, Canada. He was subsequently appointed to command of No. 3 Service Flying Training School. On 1 January 1944, Wing Commander Irwin was awarded Order of the British Empire for his efforts. He would serve through war's end, resigning from the RCAF in August 1945. Towards the end of his life, Irwin served on the Canadian Transport Commission, reportedly from 20 September 1967 until 14 January 1969.
William Roy Irwin | World War II and beyond
Between the wars Loch remained in the army and attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1923 to 1924. His fellow students included numerous future general officers, such as Dudley Johnson, John Smyth, Arthur Wakely, Montagu Stopford, Arthur Percival, Douglas Pratt, Robert Stone, John Halsted, Frederick Pile, Michael Gambier-Parry, Henry Wemyss, Robert Pargiter, Edmond Schreiber, Alastair MacDougall, Roderic Petre, Balfour Hutchison, Leslie Hill and Gordon Macready. He was involved in air defence preparations for Britain around the British Empire. From 1926 to 1929 he was a General Staff Officer Grade 2 (GSO2) to the Territorial Army (TA) Air Defence Formations, and from 1932 to 1935 an instructor at the Staff College, Quetta; GSO2 at the War Office, 1935–1937, and GSO1, Royal Air Force (RAF) Fighter Command, 1937–1938.
Kenneth Loch | Between the wars
Alwyn was born in Croydon, England and attended the John Ruskin Boys' Central School (now known as John Ruskin College). After wartime service with the Royal Air Force, Alwyn joined the Royal Academy of Music (1947-1951), where he studied singing, viola and organ (with C. H. Trevor) and won the Manns Memorial Prize for conducting in 1952. He was the Sub-Professor of Organ and opera coach and founded the RAM Madrigal Choir. After a period as a Colonial Officer working with Radio Malaya, Singapore and a post as conductor with the Royal Wellington Choral Union in Wellington, New Zealand in 1952, Alwyn returned to England.
Kenneth Alwyn | Early life, wartime service and education
Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman was born in British Guiana to a successful merchant. He came to England with his parents in 1903 and attended Cheltenham College. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and served as a Bristol Fighter pilot on the western front with 10 Squadron in the last eleven months of the war.
Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman | Early life and the First World War
After the war he went back competing in tennis tournaments and was appointed the captain of the Great Britain Davis Cup team, while still serving in the army as a colonel. He married Marjorie Paton Hindley, daughter of Douglas C. P. Hindley, on 9 September 1919, and had two daughters Rachel and Marjorie and later a son David, who died on 5 September 1945 at age 20 at Burma, killed in action. At the age of 52 at the outbreak of World War II he was sent back to action again. He died on 21 December 1964 Woking, Surrey, Great Britain.
Algernon Kingscote | Personal life
He remained with No. 83 Squadron during its conversion to the Avro Lancaster four-engined bomber. In July 1942, after a tour of operations during which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, he became a flying instructor at RAF Bassingbourn, then RAF Wescott, and finally RAF Oakley. He was later chief flying instructor for the Vickers Wellington and he was a member of the inaugural class at the Empire Test Pilots' School at RAF Boscombe Down.
Hedley Hazelden | Royal Air Force career
He then switched squadrons and mounts for his last four wins in July and August 1918, flying a Sopwith Camel for 210 Squadron RAF. He was confirmed in his rank in December 1918. Crundall relinquished his commission on 28 August 1919, and on 10 October "in recognition of distinguished services rendered during the war", was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Edward Crundall | World War I
Born in Broadford, Victoria in August 1920, he was educated at Kingswood College in Melbourne before becoming a Commonwealth public servant. After serving in the Royal Australian Navy in World War II 1941–46, he became a drapery and hardware merchant. He played Australian rules football for Acton in the Canberra Australian National Football League and while captain of Acton in 1947 won the Mulrooney Medal.
Mervyn Lee | Early life and war service
When the First World War broke out, Roy was attending St Paul's School, Hammersmith in London, England. Initially rejected by the Royal Flying Corps on the grounds of poor eyesight, Roy paid for a second opinion from a leading eye specialist, and the decision was overturned. Five months after turning 18, on 4 April 1917 he joined the RFC, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 5 July. After training and gunnery practice at Vendôme and Turnberry, he joined No. 56 Squadron on 30 October. Roy was part of "A" Flight, commanded by Captain Richard Maybery. Two months later, Roy was injured after he crash-landed his S.E.5a fighter on 6 December.
Indra Lal Roy | First World War
In 1916, as art-student Roi Livingstone de Mestre, he joined the First Australian Imperial Force. He was accepted three times after initially being rejected because his chest measurement was allegedly undersized. It appears to be indicative of the great desire of the armed forces to procure men for the World War I war effort that they would have considered accepting De Maistre once, let alone three times in short succession – and indicative of his great desire to serve in the war effort that he continually rejoined even after he had found himself too weak to cope with the workload.
Roy De Maistre | World War I
Afrer joining the AIF in 1941, he served until his discharge in 1944 and then joined the RAAF as a Leading Aircraftman until the end of the war.
Ron Frederickson | War service
"Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920." Christopher F. Shores, Norman L. R. Franks, Russell Guest. Grub Street, 1990. , .
Earl Hand | References
Elbert Scott McCuskey was a World War II US Navy fighter ace. He participated in the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway, for which he was awarded two Navy Crosses, one for each battle. By the end of the war, he was credited with 13½ aerial victories.
Elbert S. McCuskey | Introduction
In World War II he was in the Air War Plans Division and was involved in planning the Combined Bomber Offensive against Germany.
Orvil A. Anderson | World War II
Larner returned to service during World War II, rising to the rank of Colonel in the United States Army Air Corps Reserve. After the war, he became Chairman of the National Aeronautical Association and the Chairman of Robinson Aviation, Inc., of Tetersboro, New Jersey.
Gorman DeFreest Larner | World War II and beyond
Details of the honours were listed in the Supplement to the London Gazette. In 1949 he received the King’s Police Medal for Conspicuous Dedication to Duty.
R. C. M. Jenkins | World War II
He was eventually posted to serve as the Chief of Staff of the II Anzac Corps, a position he held until the end of the war. He was present at the battle of Messines in June 1917. His brother, Stephen, and Stephen's son, Dennis, also served in the Great War.
Charles Gwynn | Military career
Brigadier Sir Edgar Trevor "Bill" Williams CB CBE DSO (29 November 1912 – 26 June 1995) was a British Army officer who played a significant role in the Second Battle of El Alamein in World War II. He was a Fellow of Balliol College and Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford, and Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.
Edgar Williams | Introduction
For this work, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He returned to Australia aboard the "Orsova" on 22 November 1919.
Roy Burston | World War I
He retired from the army in January 1921.
Reginald Applin | First World War
84 Squadron RAF, 22 October 1917 to 18 April 1918; in No. 24 Squadron RAF, 18 April to 19 June 1918. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) and Croix de Guerre avec Etoile en Bronze.
George Owen Johnson | World War I service
In June 1944 he returned to the United States to serve in the Plans Division of the Headquarters, Army Air Forces in Washington, D.C.
Alvan Cullem Gillem II | World War II
During the battle, Jones was hit in the back by shrapnel from a German bomb when fighter planes strafed his position. A square piece of steel lodged in his back. Unable to breathe, his life was spared when a fellow paratrooper covered up the hole in his back with his hand enabling Jones' lungs to once again fill with air. He was awarded a Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Croix de Guerre for his services. Later, he was active in veterans groups and in 2005 he was inducted into the New York State Senate's Veterans Hall of Fame.
Ellsworth Jones | World War II service
He was instrumental in obtaining the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan Agreement, which was signed in Ottawa in December 1939, binding Canada, Britain, New Zealand and Australia to a program that eventually trained half the airmen from those four nations in the Second World War.
William Lyon Mackenzie King | Mobilization
Chappell entered military service during December 1915 as a private in the South African Cavalry. While so assigned, he fought in the Southwest African campaign against the Germans. He then joined Inns of Court Officers Training Corps in England, and was commissioned a temporary second lieutenant on 17 June 1916. He also underwent pilot's training, receiving Royal Aero Club pilot's certificate number 3329 on 17 July 1916;on 24 August 1916 Second Lieutenant R. W. Chappell was appointed a Flying Officer in the Royal Flying Corps. In September 1916, he was posted to 27 Squadron RFC as a Martinsyde Elephant pilot.
Roy W. Chappell | World War I
The battalion took part in the Battle of the Somme in October 1916, the Vimy Ridge in April 1917, and fought at Passchendaele. During the Battle of Vimy Ridge, Pte. John George Pattison of the 50th Battalion CEF was awarded the Empire's highest award for gallantry, the Victoria Cross, for his heroic actions on April 10, 1917, storming a German machine-gun nest.
The King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC) | World War 1 (1914–1920)
In 1912 his family moved to 14 Royal Circus in the New Town. In the First World War he joined the Royal Naval Air Service as a lieutenant. He was promoted rapidly, becoming a flight commander in 1917. He ended the war as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Flying Corps. He was twice Mentioned in Dispatches.
Ernest Auldjo Jamieson | Life
During the interwar period Irwin, realizing the cavalry was becoming obsolete (which trench warfare and World War I had shown), transferred to the Field Artillery Branch. From 1919–1920 he was Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Yale University and from 1920–1924 was an instructor for the Oklahoma Army National Guard. Between 1929–1933 he was an instructor for the U.S. Army Field Artillery School and, from 1933–1936 served with the Organized Reserves. He attended the U.S. Army Field Artillery School in 1926, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School from 1926–1927, and the U.S. Army War College in 1937.
Stafford LeRoy Irwin | Between the wars
William Roy Irwin joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force with the aim of serving in the Royal Naval Air Service. Upon his arrival in Britain, he was switched to the Royal Flying Corps. On 22 November 1917, probationary second lieutenant W. R. Irwin was appointed a Flying Officer. This date also marked his later postdated promotion to lieutenant. Once assigned to 56 Squadron at the combat front in France, Irwin flew his first patrol on 1 March 1918, as a Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a pilot. He joined the war even as the Germans launched their last great offensive of the war.
William Roy Irwin | World War I
In 1943 Whitney enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps and was transferred to the 66th Air Force Flying School at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute (now known as Tuskegee University). He became a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, as part of the 301st Fighter Squadron. Whitney flew 34 combat missions in Europe during World War II and was awarded the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters.
Yenwith K. Whitney | World War II
He also scored three more times in March.
Cecil Frederick King | Aerial service
In World War I he joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers as an officer in 1915 and did service on the Western Front. He was invalided out in 1919.
David Hughes Parry | War service
He went to England, where he trained with the Royal Flying Corps from February to August 1918, with the rank of major from 7 June 1918. He joined the American Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in France a pilot with the 91st Aero Squadron until September 1918, when he assumed command of Colombey-les-Belles aerodrome during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He was then air service commander of V Corps until March 1919. He was a student officer at the Army Artillery School at Trier, and was on the headquarters of the air service of the Third United States Army at Coblenz during the Occupation of the Rhineland.
Martin F. Scanlon | World War I
A notable casualty was Lieutenant Colonel "Johnny" Andrews, who was killed in action.
The King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC) | World War II (1939–1942)