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AUGUST 3, 1916. [/QGHT] Casualties. Second Lieutenant CECIL HENRY COXE, R.F.C., aged 18, was the youngest son of Mr. H. R. H. Coxe, formerly of the Indian Civil Service. He was educated at Bilton Grange, Marlborough, and Balliol, where he gained a History Exhi bition in December, 1914. On attaining his eighteenth year he applied for a commission in the R.F.C., which he obtained in December, 1915. He gained his " Wings" in May, and went to the Front at once. On July 1st he was sent with a detachment to attack a railway centre in rear of the German lines. On his return, after carrying out his orders, he was shot down, and died the same day in a German field hospital. Lieutenant A. V. OLIVER-JONES, R.F.A., attached to Royal Flying Corps, who was reported missing, it is now announced, has been killed during an air raid. He was acting as observer on an aeroplane that was hit by anti-aircraft guns, and fell .9,000 ft. He was well known in Tunbridge Wells, where his relatives reside. Early in the war Lieutenant Oliver-Jones was seriously injured in the hand by an explosive. Second Lieutenant REGINALD WILLIAM SETTLE, R.F.C., who was killed on July 23rd while flying over the German lines, was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Settle, The Hill, Alsager. He was educated at Elleray Park, Wallasey, and Radley College, Oxford. Mr. Joel Settle, who is the managing- director of the firm of Messrs. Settle and Speakman, colliery agents and factors, is well known in commercial circles in Birmingham and the Midlands. Second Lieutenant Settle, who was 25 years of age, joined the Motor Transport Section as a private in November, 1914. He was engaged in driving the motor car of Sir William Robertson when he was Quarter master-General, and afterwards when he was Chief of the Staff. On General Robertson's return to England, Second Lieutenant Settle, who had been promoted to sergeant, was given charge of the motor cars of General Sir Douglas Haig at his headquarters. He obtained a commission in the R.F.C. in June. Lieutenant GUY NEVILLE TEALE, R.F.C., killed on July 20th, aged 19, was the only son of Mrs. Teale, of 37, De Vere Gardens, W. He was born in 1896, and educated at Charterhouse. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Public Schools Brigade, obtaining a commission in the 8th Buffs in November, 1914. In April, 1915, he transferred to the R.F.C., and took his wings in June of that year. In November he went to France with a squadron. A few days before his death, on promotion, he was transferred to another squadron, on which occasion his squadron commander wrote : " He has done me awfully well, and has put up some splendid shows. One of his best efforts was just before he left. He went on a night bombing expedition and came down to 300 ft. to attack a searchlight which was turned on him. They fired on him very heavily, hitting his machine and -engine . . . but he defeated them and put out the light with machine-gun fire. It was an excellent show, and one of which he and his observer may be very proud." He had been promoted Flight-Commander and Captain, although he had not yet been gazetted. On his death the commander of his squadron wrote : "It may perhaps help you a little to bear his loss when I tell you that the duty on which he was killed was one for which he had volunteered." <•> <s> QUESTIONS IN Air Service Requirements. MR. PETO, on July 25th in the House of Commons, asked the Minister of Munitions if he is satisfied that all the estab lishments controlled by his Department which manufacture any of the requisites for the Air Service are fully engaged ; whether any such establishments have repeatedly asked for further orders and obtained no reply for many weeks, and -then of a negative or delaying character ; and whether he will consider the establishment of a travelling supervisor of Air Service work, with a view to obtaining the maximum ^results ? Captain DAWYCK MOBERLY VEITCH, 1st D.Y.O. Lancers, attached to R.F.C., was the younger son of the late Andrew Veitch, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. He was educated at Bedford Grammar School, and at Uppingham. He was on leave in England when war broke out, and went out to France attached to the 9th Lancers early in Sep tember, 1914, and in the November was transferred to the 4th Dragoon Guards. He was invalided home in December, 1914, and in January, 1915, joined the R.F.C. as Observer. In February, 1916, he was asked to qualify as a pilot, and after some months' work in England returned to France on June 28th. While he was flying on a reconnaissance on July 8th both wings of his machine were blown off, and it is believed he was killed. Lieutenant JOHN LEO WHITTY, Leinster Regiment, attached R.FX., officially reported missing, is now stated to have been killed by an anti-aircraft shell during a reconnaissance over the enemy's lines on July 8th. Born at Cape Town in 1894, he was the third son of Lieutenant-Colonel M. J. Whitty, R.A.M.C. He was educated at Castleknock, and the Jesuit College, Liverpool, and was gazetted from Sandhurst to the Leinster Regiment in February, 1913. He joined the ist Battahon at Fyzabad in the following September, and after the outbreak of war returned with it from India to France. He was wounded at the retaking of the village of St. Eloi on March 15th, 1915, in which action the ist Leinster Regiment especially distinguished itself. He was highly commended for his coolness and courage in every emergency, and was mentioned in Despatches, and awarded the Military Cross the following June. His three brothers are at the Front. Wounded. Second-Lieutenant T. H. M'DOWELL, R.F.C. who was recently severely wounded in the shoulder by shrapnel, was a son of Mr. Thomas M'Dowell, Helen's Bay (of Messrs. Dunville's), and joined the Army originally as a despatch rider. He was subsequently gazetted to a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery, and transferred last February to the Flying Corps. He was in hospital for several weeks, but has made a good recovery. Missing. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wilson Browne, of The Crag, Sutton Coldfield, have been notified that their son, Second Lieutenant ROLAND MURRAY WILSON-BROWNE, R.F.C., is reported missing. Second Lieutenant Wilson-Browne, who is 19 years of age and obtained his " Wings " at the beginning of last May, was educated at Solihull Grammar School and King Edward's School, Birmingham, and distinguished himself at the latter place by winning the gymnastic championship in three successive years. A brother officer, in a letter to Second Lieutenant Wilson-Browne's parents, states that he went up on a bombing raid on July 21st and did not return, but when last seen was descending with his machine under control. It is therefore assumed that he has been taken prisoner. Married and to be Married. The marriage of Captain VIVYEN DAVIES, A.S.C. (attached to R.F.C.), and ENID, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. WAREHAM SMITH, of 91, Upper Tulse Hill, S.W., took place on Tuesday last at St. Bede's Church, Clapham Park. <•> <s> PARLIAMENT. Major Baird (representing the Air Board) : Establishments engaged on aircraft work are as a general rule employed to their full capacity, the object aimed at being to place new orders a sufficient time in advance of the completion of the previous contract to enable all material to be obtained for commencing work on the new order as soon as the old order is completed. It is not, however, practicable in all circum stances to adhere to this rule, as to do so would often involve giving orders for aircraft of types already becoming obsolete in preference to newer types which may be under considera tion or trial. I am not aware of any cases such as are ' 657
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