English: A group of officers of the Royal Flying Corps. These men were among the first flying and administrative officers of the RFC, and some of the first pilots ever qualified by the Royal Aero Club (RAeC certificate numbers and dates in parentheses).[1]
Commander (later Air Commodore) Charles Samson, R.N., first Officer Commanding the Naval Wing of the RFC (No. 71, 25/4/1911)[1]:155
Lieutenant (later Major) Basil Herbert Barrington-Kennett, Grenadier Guards; first adjutant of the RFC under Sykes. Author of 1912 article Military Aeronautics in France. In preparing the Corps for their ordeal of 1914, "He was a great disciplinarian, he knew every officer and man individually, he was universally liked, and he did more perhaps than any one else to hold the corps together and to train it in an efficient routine."[3] Killed while serving in the Guards, 18 May 1915[4] (No. 43, 31/12/1910)[1]:127
Rear row, standing (left to right)
Captain (later Lt-Col.) George William Patrick Dawes, D.S.O, Legion d'Honneur, Croix de Guerre[2][5][6] (No. 17, 26/7/1910)[1]:102
Lieutenant (later Captain) Vivian H. N. Wadham[2] (killed in action 17th January 1916)[7] (No. 243, 16/7/1912)[1]:168
Lieutenant Ronald L. Charteris[2] (founded ABC Motors) (No. 197, 12/3/1912)[1]:95
Lieutenant Alexander Ernest Burchardt-Ashton[2] (Resigned commission in RFC because drunk while flying at Brooklands; transferred to Dragoon Guards. Re-enlisted in 22 Bn. Royal Fusiliers, Lance-Corporal; killed near Ypres 10/11 July 1916.)[8][9][10] (No. 201, 16/4/1912)[1]:82
Lieutenant (later Commander and Lt-Colonel) Cecil L'Estrange Malone, R.N. (No. 195, 12/3/1912 - same day as Charteris)[1]:136
Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel, RAF) Spenser D. A. Grey, R.N.[2] (No. 117, 17/8/1911)[1]:114
Lieutenant (later Captain) Alan Geoffrey Fox, Royal Engineers; died of wounds sustained while flying, May 1915[4] (No. 176, 30/1/1912)[1]:109
http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//176/media-176251/large.jpg Original caption reads: "A group of named officers of the Royal Flying Corps. These men were the first flying and administrative officers of the RFC. The officers are (left to right) Lieutenant de Haviland, Captain Dawes, Captain Gordon, Lieutenant Wadham, Major Brooke Popham, Lieutenant Playfair, Lieutenant Charteris, Major Sykes, Lieutenant Ashton, Lieutenant L'Estrange Maloney, Commander Sampson, Lieutenant Spender Grey, Lieutenant Barrington Kennett, Lieutenant Fox."
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