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The puffs of smoke from the detonating shell hung in the air for minutes on end like balls of fleecy cotton wool before they slowly expanded and were dissipated. " From the places mentioned as being the chief targets for the enemy's heavy howitzers, it will be seen that the Germans are now inclined to concentrate their fire systematically upon definite areas in which their aviators think they have located our guns, or upon villages where it is imagined our troops may be billeted. The result will be to give work to the local builders." IKe Rai/al !f!ero Clu. of the, Ui\ited Kiz\gddi 'Jim OFFICIAL NOTICES TO ME.MBER5 IE Aviators' Certificates. THE following Aviators' Certificates have been granted :— 907 Flight Sub-Lieut. Philip Leslie Holmes, R.N.A.S. (Avro Biplane, Central Flying School, Upavon). Sept. 21st, 1914. John Callaghan Brooke (B16riot Monoplane, Military School, Brooklands). Sept. 2lst, 1914. Claude Francis Strickland, I.C.S. (Grahame-White Biplane, Grahame-White School, Hendon). Sept. 22nd, 1914. James Gordon McKinley (Bleriot Monoplane, Military School, Brooklands). Sept. 22nd, 1914. Flight Sub-Lieut. Bernard Crossley Meates, R.N.A.S. 908 909 910 912 913 914 911 (Maurice Farman Biplane, Central Flying School, Upavon) Sept. 23rd, 1914. Harry O'Hagan (Bleriot Monoplane, Military School, Brook lands). Sept. 23rd, 1914. Oswald Mansell Moullin (Bristol Biplane, Military School, Brooklands). Sept. 24th, 1914. 2nd Lieut. Frederick William Polehampton (14th Cavahy Reserve, 15th Hussars) (Grahame-White Biplane, Grahame- White School, Hendon). Sept. 27th, 1914. B. STEVENSON, Assistant Secretary. 166, Piccadilly, W. THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS. THE following promotion from the ranks was announced on the 25th ult :— R.F.C—Military Wing.—Sergeant W. W. W. Reilly to be Second Lieutenant. The following appointment was announced by the Admiralty on the 25th ult.:— Royal Naval Air Service.—Assistant Paymaster W. B. Hogg, to the " Penelope," additional, for Naval Air Station, Great Yar mouth, to date September 24th. The following appointments were announced by the Admiralty on the 27th nit. :— Royal Naval Air Service.—Lieut.-Commander F. C. Halahan, M.V.O., to "President," additional, as Acting Commander, for duty in the Air Department, Admiralty, September 25th. Flight Lieut. R. E. C. Peirse, to the " Pembroke," additional, for Eastchurch Naval Flying School, September 25th. Probationary Flight Sub-Lieut. E. V. S. Wilberforce has been confirmed in the rank of Flight Sub-Lieutenant, and appointed to *' President," additional, as Assistant Instructor at the Central Flying School, September 25th. The following appointments were announced by the Admiralty on the 28 th ult. :— Royal Naval Air Service.—Assistant Paymaster F. K. Haskins, to the " Pembroke," additional, for course of instruction at Central Flying School, September 26th. Flight Lieuts. A. C. Barnaby, H. Fawcett, R. P. Ross, C. E. Maude, F. W. Rowhill, and A. B. Gaskell have been promoted to the rank of Flight Commander, with seniority of September 26th. The following promotions were announced in the London Gazette of the 29th ull. :— Central Flying School.—Capt. Archibald C. H. MacLean, Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), a Flight-Commander and an Instructor at the Central Flying School, to be a Squadron-Commander, September 18th, 1914. R.F.C.—Military Wing.—Officers to be Flying Officers, September 19th, 1914.—Capt. Harry T. Lumsden, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, and to be seconded ; Capt. John R. C. Heathcote, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, and to be seconded. Royal Naval Air Service.—Probationary Flight-Sub-Lieut. Ernest V. S. Wilberforce has this day, September 25th, been confirmed in the rank of Flight-Sub-Lieut. The following appointment was announced by the Admiralty on •the 29th ult. :— Royal Naval Air Service.—Gunner G. Bower to the " Pem broke," additional, for Central Air Office (sub-depot), Sheerness, September 27th. The following were announced in a special supplement of the London Gazette issued on the 30th ult. :— Central Flying School-—Capt. Archibald C. H. MacLean, Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment), a Flight Commander and an Instructor at the Central Flying School, will be graded as a Squadron Commander, and not as stated in the Gazette of September 29th, 1914. R.F.C. Military Wing.—Special Reserve of Officers,— Bentfield C. Hacks and Harold Blackburn to be confirmed in their rank. The following were announced by the Admiralty on the 30th ult. :— Acting Flight Lieutenants—L. Tomkinson and G. R. Bromet have been confirmed in the rank of Flight Lieutenant, with seniority of August 1st. Probationary Flight Sub-Lieutenants—F. M. L. Barr, H. G. Wanklyn, and J. M. R. Cripps, have been confirmed in the rank of Flight Sub-Lieutenant, wittj seniority of August lat. t ;P. "Tg B^^lilir < *0 ^BL ^^B 1 Photo by Capt. Oswald Watt. OUR FLIGHT OFFICERS AT THE FRONT.-Lieut. James Valentine, R.F.C., with his Bleriot at . 995 C 2
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