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I/UOHT) MARCH 30, 1916. THE ROLL, OF HONOUR. THE Secretary of the Admiralty has announced the following casualty:— Under date Mar. 24th : Injured. Flight Sub-Lieutenant Richard E. Bush, R.N. The Secretary of the Admiralty announces that the following four Officers and a Chief Petty Officer of the Royal Naval Air Service are reported to be missing after the attack of the 25th inst. by British seaplanes upon the German airship sheds in Schleswig Holstein :— Flight-Lieutenant George II. Rcid, R.N. Flight Sub-Lieutenant John F. Hay, R.N. Flight Sub-Lieutenant Cyril G. Knight, R.N Midshipman Stanley E. Hoblyn, R.N.R. Richard Mullins, C.P.O. Mechanic, 3rd Class. The following casualties in the Expeditionary Force ® ® have been reported from General Headquarters to the War Office :— Under date Mar. 14th : Wounded. Sergeant T. May, Royal Flying Corps. Under date Mar. 19th : Wounded. Second Lieutenant R. I. Kirton, K.O. Scottish Borderers and R.F.C. Under date Mar. 18th: Missing. ist Class Air-Mechanic P. Shaw, Royal Flying Corps. Previously reported Missing, now reported Prisoner of War. Lieutenant G. S. M. Insall, V.C., Royal Flying Corps. Reported from Egypt: Died of Wounds. Second Lieutenant M. Girod, 3rd Cheshire Regt., attached R.F.C. Wounded. Lieutenant E. R. Pretyman, ist Shropshire L.I., attached R.F.C. ® ® PERSONALS. UlfDKR the above heading will be published weekly particulars of a personal character relating to those who have /alien or have been wounded in the country's service, announcements of marriages and other items concerning members of the Flying Services and others well known in the world of aviation. We shall be ^leased to receive for publication properly authenticated particulars suitable for this column. Casualties. Lieutenant HERIIEKT FREDKKXK BIRDWOOD, 20th London Regiment, attached R.F.C., who was officially reported on March lotn to be missing since March 2nd, is now reported to have been killed in an air fight over Valenciennes against overwhelming odds. He was the only son of Dr. Roger A. Birdwood, late Medical Superintendent of the Park Hospital, Hither Green, S.E., and Mrs. Birdwood, of Twickenham, and is the fourth nephew of Sir George Birdwood to be killed in the war. Lieutenant Birdwood, who completed his 22nd year only some three weeks before his death, was educated at Mount St. Mary's, Chesterfield, and the City of London School. He entered Peterhouse College, Cambridge, in October, 1913, and was reading for law. He had completed his first training in the O.T.C. on the outbreak of war, and having applied for a commission, was gazetted second lieutenant in the 20th London Regiment (Blackhcath and Woolwich). He went to the Western front early in March last year, and was at the taking of Loos in September. In December he was attached to the R.F.C., with temporary rank as lieutenant. In the fight over Valenciennes he encountered several hostile machines, in one of which was Immelmann. A message subsequently dropped into the British lines by an enemy airman reported this, and stated that the pilot, Lieutenant C. W. Palmer, was wounded. The commanding officer of Lieutenant Birdwood's squadron writes that "his cheerful manner and ready wit made him as popular with the men as he was with all of us. To say that we have lost one of the best observers, one who was always ready and willing to go anywhere and do any thing, is the least one can say." Second Lieutenant D. A. GI.I.N, of the R.F.C., who was reported musing on December 29th, is now reported killed. He* as the only son of the Rev. J. P. and Mrs. Glen, of Norwich, and was 19 years of age. At the beginning of the war he joined the Public Schools Battalion. He was commissioned to the K.O.S.B. Before taking up his commission he entered Sandhurst, where he became sergeant of his company. At Sandhurst he was selected for the Flying Corps. His first solo flight at Farnborough was on June ist. In four days he got his pilot's certificate, and his wings on July 24th. He was at the front for over five months, and saw much service. He was recommended for decoration and promotion to flight commander, and was mentioned in despatches on January 1st. His fifteenth and last fight was on December 29th with six Fokkers, while acting as escort to another machine. Lieut. Glen, in 1914, when representing Taunton School, where he was educated, in the Public Schools Championships, won the steeplechase cup and gold medal in record time, and the bronze medal in the mile. Captain REGINALD ARTHUR SAUNDERS, R.F.A., 7th London Brigade (T.F.), and Flight-Commander, R.F.C., to whose death reference was made last week, was bom in 1894 and educated at Ovingdean Hall, Brighton, and Bedford. He entered the British South Africa Company's service, but on the outbreak of war joined the Officers Training Corps, obtaining a commission in the 7th London Brigade, R.F.A. He was attached to the R.F.C. from March, 1915, obtaining his pilot's certificate, and went to France in July last. He was mentioned in despatches in December, gazetted Flight-Commander, and awarded the Military Cross. Major and Squadron-Commander ERNEST FREDERICK UNWIN, Army Service Corps and R.F.C., died on March 22nd at the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, from injuries received while on duty on the night of January 31st. Born in January, 1881, he was the third son of the late Rev. C. E. Unwin and of Mrs. Unwin, of 7, Sunny Gardens, Hendon. He received his first appointment in the Army Service Corps in June, 1904, and in April, 1913, was gazetted to the R.F.C. Reserve. He was promoted Captain in December, 1913, and on the outbreak of war joined the R.F.C. Lieutenant CYRIL WVNYARD BATTYE, Royal Berkshire Regiment and R.F.C., the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Battye, Military Knight of Windsor, and Mrs. Battye, who, it was announced last week, was killed while flying on March 13th, was educated at Repton and Sandhurst. He gained his commission in the 2nd Royal Berkshire Regiment in August, 1914, and saw service in Flanders. He was severely wounded at Ypres in October, 1914, and again— in the trenches—in August, 1915. In 1914 he was a member of the R.M.C., Sandhurst, Cricket XL, and also played for Berkshire and the M.C.C. JOHN RITCHIE LAIDLAW, who, on March 17th, was killed at Hendon through a fall from an aeroplane, was the son of Robert Laidlaw, of Auckland, N.Z. His age was 24. Wounded. Flight Lieutenant ERNEST NORTON, R.N.A.S., son of Mr. Clement W. Norton, Dolguan, Newtown (Mont.), is in hospital in France suffering from injuries to his foot, leg, and head received during a chase after Zeppelins. Lieut. Norton, who is Mont gomeryshire's first airman, is 22 years of age, and was educated at Newtown County School. On the outbreak of war he left his motor establishment at Welshpool and rejoined his regiment, the Montgomeryshiie Yeomanry, as a despatch rider. He was later transfeired, and has been at the front several months. Lieutenant EDWARD RADCLIFFE PRETYMAN, ist Shropshire Light Infantry, attached R.F.C., is reported from Egypt as wounded. He is the second son of Major-General Sir George T. Pretyman, Beech Hurst, Camberley, Surrey, and a relative of Colonel E. G. Pretyman, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade. Born in 1894, he joined his regiment when he was 19, and got his promotion in February of last year. Married and to be Married. A marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place, between WILLIAM HENRY DYKE ACLAND, Lieutenant, Royal ist Devon Yeomanry, and R.F.C., elder son of Admiral Sir William Dyke Acland, Bart., C.V.O., and the Hon. Lady Acland. and MARGARET EMILY, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. THEODORE BARCLAY, of Fanshaws, Hertford. Flight Sub-Lieutenant MURRAY CHAPMAN, R.N.A.S., son of Mr. and Mrs. Capel Chapman, of Hove, was—at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate—on March 22nd married to Miss GARRY SIMPSON, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Garry Simpson, of 89, Lancaster Gate, W. Items. Temporary Captain LORD LUCAS, Hampshire Yeomanry, whose appointment from Flying Officer R.F.C. to Flight Commander is just gazetted, is in his 40th year, and is the only surviving son of the Hon. Auberon Herbert, and grandson of the 6th Earl Cowper. He was Under-Secretary for War, 1908-n, Under-Secretary' '0I Colonies, 1911, Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Agriculture, 1911-14, and President of the Board of Agriculture, 1914-15. 27O
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