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JANUARY 16, 1919 THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE U.K. OFFICIAL NOTICES TO MEMBERS. THE FLYING SERVICES FUND (Registered under the War Charities Act, 1916) Administered by the Royal Aero Club For the benefit of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the ROYAL AIR FORCE who are incapacitated on Active Service, and for the Widows and Dependants of those who are killed. Honorary Treasurer : The Right Hon. LORD KINNAIRD. Committee : Lieut.-Col. T. O'B. HUBBARD, M.C., R.A.F. Chairman). Mr. CHESTER FOX. Lieut.-Col. HARCOURT G. GOLD, R.A.F. Lieut.-Col. C. E. MAUDE, R.A.F. Colonel R. H. MORE, C.M.G., R.A.F. Secretary : Lieut.-Com. H. E. PERRIN, R.N.V.R. Bankers : Messrs. BARCLAYS BANK, LTD., 4, Pall Mall East, London, S.W. 1. Subscriptions Total subscriptions received to Jan. 7th, 1919 Miss Eleanor Bairdsmith (3rd contribution) .. Proceeds of a concert given by the R.A'F. Follies, Newlyn, at Penzance, November 8th and 9th, 1918 £. s. 14,510 11 5 5 55 6 d. 9 0 7 I4-57I 3 4 Total, January 14th, 1919 Offices: THE ROYAL AERO CLUB, 3, CLIFFORD STREET, LONDON, W. 1. H. E. PERRIN, Secretary. HONOURS Mentioned for Work in Italy IN his despatch dated October 26 and published in the London Gazette on January 6, General F. R. Earl of Cavan, K.P., Commander-in-Chief of the British Force in Italy, includes the following among those whose distinguished and gallant services and devotion to duty he considers deserving of special mention :— Royal Air Force Awcock, Capt. (A. Maj.) C. H. (R.G.A.) ; Barker, Capt. (A. Maj.) W. G., D.S.O., M.C. ; Carpenter, Lieut. (A. Capt.) P., D.S.O., M.C. ; Close, Sec. Lieut. W. T. ; Craig, Sec. Lieut, and Hon. Lieut. G. ; Foster, Lieut. C. ; Hill, Sec. Lieut. P. L. ; Howell, Lieut. (A. Capt.) C. E., D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C. ; Johnston, Lieut. A. J. ; Joubert de la Ferte, Lieut.- Col. (A. Col.) P. B., D.S.O. (R.A.), commanding 14th Wing ; Luxton, Lieut. R. H. (Can. Fd. Arty) ; Mounsey, Maj. R. J. (Lieut., Hamps. R.) ; Whittaker, Maj. J. T., M.C. (Lieut. R.A.S.G). Allen, 17789 Sergt. Clk. C. ; Andrews, 12324 Cpl. Mech. (A. Sergt.-Mech.) E. H. ; Bowler, 11539 Cpl. Clk. (A. Sergt. Clk.) W. C. ; Cockerill, 25416 Sergt.-Mech. T. W. ; Eaton, 16645 Sergt.-Mech. (A. Chief Mech.) F. G. ; Holmes, 404363 1st CI. A.M. (A. Cpl.) W. B. ; Lee, 43669 1st CI. A.M. R. ; Lord, 13724 Chief Mech. C. ; McNally, 34997 Sergt. Mech. T. Mockford, 26322 Chief Mech. A. ; Powell, 84 S.M. F. ; Ross, 36740 Cpl. Mech. A. W. ; Tomlin, 12506 Sergt. Mech. H. ; Turner, 18708 Sergt. Clk. E. W. ; Warner, 23825 Clk. G E. Honours for War Services ,' IT was announced in a supplement to the London Gazette on January 8 that the King has been pleased to give orders for the following appointments to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services in connection with the War:— Commanders (Civil Division) Drogheda, Countess of, Kathleen. i Ross, James Stirling, Esq., Deputy Assistant Financial Secretary, Air Ministry. Jg The New Ministers IN the official announcement of the constitution of the new Government issued on January 10 the following appeared :— War Office and Air Ministry Secretary of State, Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, M.P. Under-Secretary of State, Viscount Peel. Parliamentary and Financial Secretary, Rt. Hon. H. W. Forster, M.P. Under-Secretary of State for Air, Major-Gen. Rt. Hon. J. E. B. Seely, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.P, (The Under-Secretary of State for Air will be appointed Vice-President of the Air. Council, and will preside over the Council.) , • Officers (Civil Division) Bulman, Maj. George Purvis, Dep. Chief Inspector (Engines), A.I.D., Ministry of Munitions. Fulton, Hamilton, Esq., Managing Director, Messrs. Martin- syde, Ltd. Mayo, Maj. Robert Hobart, Section Director, Aircraft Technical Dept., M.O.M. Members (Civil Division) Allnutt, Arthur Joseph, Esq., Surveyor, Dept. of the Administrator of Works and Buildings, Air Ministry. Andrews, Charles Henry, Esq., civil engineer, Dept. of the Administrator of Works and Buildings, Air Ministry. Barnes, Edith Helen, Lady, R.A.F. Aid Committee. Connolly, William Frederick, Esq., staff clerk, Finance Dept., Air Ministry. Fozard, Capt. Harry Edwin, A.I.D., M.O.M. John Henry, Esq., staff clerk, Finance Dept., Air Heath, Ministry. Knibb, Accounts Frederick Charles, Esq., Examiner of Technical Contracts Sect., Dept. Administrator, Works and Buildings, Air Ministry. Lander, Richard Gilbert, Esq., Staff Sect., Dept. Ad ministrator of Works and Buildings, Air Ministry. Medcalf, Capt. Herbert, Works Engineer, Royal Aircraft Establishment, M.O.M. Pickles, Edward Llewellyn, Esq., Chief Examiner, Air Inventions Committee. Pollard, Major Frederick Ernest, Sub-Section Director, Technical Dept., Aircraft Production, M.O.M. Rolfe, Miss Ethel Blanche, Production Officer, Supply Dept., M.O.M. Smith, Noel William Kelland Isbister, Esq., Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Air. Sykes, Capt. George, R.A.F., Purchasing Dept., War Mission, U.S.A. Thomson, Capt. David, Aeronautical Timber Supplies, British War Mission, U.S.A. Wheatley, Capt. Christopher William, late Chief Assistant Director of Aeronautical Supplies, British War Mission, U.S.A. Aircraft, Assistant British Ministry of Munitions (to become Ministry of Supply) Minister, Andrew Weir. Joint Parliamentary Secretaries, F. G. Kellaway, M.P. ; Major J. L. Baird, C.M.G., D.S.O., M.P. New H ome for the Air Ministry ONE of the first of the big Government departments to vacate its palatial hotel will be the Air Ministry, and it is hoped that the Hotel Cecil will be ready for vacation by the Spring. The Air Ministry, it is understood, is having placed at its disposal a block of buildings near Whitehall, which it is intended shall form its permanent home. .;.._..-,,• 1 . • .•.. . - .— . ' . '.1 A 7fc
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