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[/QGHI] HATS off to the Malay States. Including the 14 fighting machines given by the Sultan of Johore, all classes in the Malay Peninsula—Europeans, Malays, Chinese and Indians —have subscribed for 45 aeroplanes for the British Army since the-outbreak of war. WHAT about the latest mess at the Central Flying School at Salisbury ? No, not the kind you mean, but the one that was opened the other day with an "At Home "—sports, concert and dancing. JOURNALISM has, and still is, playing its part well in giving to the Service) officers with valuable technical knowledge and training. Among those recently obtaining their " wings " in AUGUST 24, ,1.916. the R.F.C. is Second Lieut. R. E. Dangerfield, son of Mr. Edmund Dangerfielrl, of the Temple Press. Our congratula tions to both father and son. IF the " tales " of the Grimsby fishermen—of the hide and seek behind artificially created clouds tactics of the Zeppelins over the North Sea—are not too highly coloured, these peripatetic prowlers may well be dubbed the " Squids " of the air for the future. HAVING exhausted the toxic effects of the Hymn* of Hate, the latest effort of the German Government is to try to per suade the German people that they are taking their revenge for what they call the Baralong case by sending Zeppelins to England. " Every time a Zeppelin appears the English are to remember the ' Baralong.' " So runs the legend. UNDER the above heading mil be published weekly particulars of a personal character relating to those who have fallen 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 He world of aviation. We shall be pleased to receive for publication properly authenticated particulars suitable •' for this column. Casualties. Second Lieutenant HENRY MERRIK BURREL LAW^R.F.C, who was killed on August 8th, aged 24, was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Law. He was educated at Exeter School, and was a member of the O.T.C. Being employed on Govern ment work, he could not obtain his commission until December, 1915. He went to the Front in July. His brother, Second Lieutenant C. L. G. Law, Suffolk Regt., was killed in Flanders last September. The funeral of Second Lieutenant CARRYER, East Yorkshire Regt. and R.F.C., who was accidentally killed on August 13th, took place at Leicester amid manifestations of great public sympathy. He belonged to a well-known Leicester family. A firing party and a military band attended, and officers and men of the R.F.C. walked behind the gun-carriage on which the coffin was placed. At the conclusion of the service volleys were fired over the grave. Lieutenant EDWIN J OHN LESLIE LONNEN, R.F.C., who was killed last week owing to an accident whilst flying at Dart- ford, was the only Son of the popular comedian, the late Mr. E. J. Lonnen, whose name was so long associated with the Holhngshead Gaiety successes, he being contemporaneous with Miss Nellie Farren, Miss Kate Vaughan, Fred Leslie, &c. Lieutenant Lonnen was 27 years old. Resigning his position in the Bank of Chili, Mauritius, he returned to England and joined the H.A.C. Later he joined the R.F.C., and was ap pointed Lieutenant two months ago. He was tjuried with military honours on Saturday in his father's grave at Nor wood Cemetery. Wounded. Captain STUART GRANT-DALTON, D.S.O., Yorkshire Regt., attached to R.F.C., wounded, belongs to a Somersetshire family, and was born in 1886. He became in 1906 a Second Lieutenant in the regiment mentioned, and attained to his present rank in October, 1914. For his services in the field he was recently awarded the D.S.O. Captain EDWARD HENRY PETRE, Suffolk Regt., attached to the R.F.C., wounded, is the son of Mr. Francis W. Petre, and a great-grandson of the eleventh Lord Petre, who died in 1850. Born in 1881, he got a commission in the Suffolk Regt. as a Second Lieutenant in May of last year, and was promoted to be Captain in the following October. His father, wllo resides in Dunedin, New Zealand, is the heir-presumptive to the present Lord Petre, who is only two years old and succeeded to the peerage last September, his father, who was a Captain in the Coldstream Guards, having died from wounds received in action in France. Married and to be Married. The marriage of Captain H. COLMORE, 7th Hussars, R.F.C., and Miss NINA GOSTTJNG-MURRAY, took place, quietly owing to the war, at the Memorial Church, Swythamley Park, on August 18th. An engagement is announced between RUBY, only daughter of DARTFORD HOLMES, of Huddersfield, and Flight-Lieutenant F. M. L. BARR, R.N., only son of Engineer-Commander E. Barr, R.N., and Mrs. Barr, of Mossgeil, Rainham, Kent. Items. MR. WILFRID C. ASHLEY, who has been elected chairman of the Parliamentary Air Committee, has represented Black pool in the Commons in the Conservative cause since 1906. He is a great-nephew of the famous philanthropist, Lord Shaftesbury, and married the.only child of Sir Ernest Cassel in 1001. He has served in the Ayrshire Militia, the Grenadier Guards and the Hants Militia, retiring with the rank of Major in 1903. MR. ALAN H. BURGOYNE, who has consented to act as secretary to the Parliamentary Air Committee, has long been interested in aeronautics, and consistent readers of " FLIGHT '* from No. 1 will doubtless recollect an illustrated description in our issue of November 27th, 1000, of two of his very prac tical and beautifully made models. He is a Unionist Im perialist and Tariff Reformer, and sat in the House in the interests of North Kensington since 1910. He founded the Navy League Annual, which he edited for five years. He is greatly interested in submarine work. Mr. Burgoyne has travelled extensively in all parts of the world, and once, when in Port Arthur, was mistaken for a spy and saw the inside of a Russian prison. Information is now to hand of how Second Lieut- GEOFFREY VICTOR RANDALL, R.F.C., whose death was announced in " FLIGHT " on August 1 ith, met his end. A fortnight before he was killed he and his observer were attacked by four hostile machines. Lieut. Randall brought one enemy machine down, and kept the other three at a distance until he reached the British lines. Later he was attacked by eight hostile machines, shot through the head, and killed instantly. His observer climbed into the pilot's seat, and managed to get hold of the controls, when he was rendered unconscious by a shot. The aeroplane circled and grounded 400 yards from our front trenches. The observer was rescued by a padre and a sergeant under heavy fire* Lieut. Randall's squadron-commander writes :—" I am very- cut up, and so is the whole squadron at losing him. . . . Twice lately I have brought his name before the proper authorities for brave and useful work, and only a few days ago I was ordered to convey to him the personal congratula tions of the G.O.C., R.F.C., in the field." And again in another letter :—" He was overwhelmed with eight hostile machines, but all accounts agree that he went straight into the middle of them, and he would never have cared if it had been 18 instead of eight." 724
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