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NOVEMBER 3, 1921 THE ROYAL London Gazette, October 25 Maj. and Bt. Lieut.-Col. L. F. Blandy, D.S.O., R.E., to be Controller of Communications, Air Ministry ; May 1, 1919. Permanent Commissions Sqdn.-Ldr. J. Stanley-Adams, D.S.C., resigns his comma., and is granted the rank of Lieut.-Col.; Sept. 19. Group Capt. C. S. Burnett, C.B.E., D.S.O., is restored to the active list from half-pay ; Oct. 24. Flight-Lieut. H. V. Jerrard is placed on half-pay, Scale A, with effect from July 26, until further notice (substituted for Gaictte Aug. 5). Short Service Commissions The following are granted short service commns. as Flying Offrs., with effect from, and with seny. of, the dates indicated :—R. S. Higgens ; Oct. 15. A. H. Love; Oct. 11. G. H. Vasse ; Oct. 17. Flight-Lieut. C. C. Treatt resigns his commn. and is granted the rank of Maj. ; April 22 (substituted for the Gazette April 8). Flying Offr. C. N. C. Dickson, A.F.C., resigns his commn., and is permitted to retain the rank of Lieut.; Oct. 26. Gazette, Sept. 12,1919 appointing Pilot-Ofir. J. W. Bell, D.S.M., to a short service commn., is cancelled. Stores Branch Pitot-Offr., on probn., E. Clancy resigns his commn. ; Oct. 6. Seconding Lieut. M. R. Cooper, Devon R., is granted a temp, commn. as a Flying Offr. on seconding, for four years' duty with the R.A.F. ; Oct. 15. Flying Branch Pilot-OHr. J. W. Bell, D.S.M., to be Flying Ofir. ; March 7, 1920. Technical Branch Col. L. F. Blandy, D.S.O. (Maj. and Bt. Lieut.-Col., R.F.), relinquishes his temp. R.A.F. commn. ; May 1, 1919!). Flying Offr. R. VV. R. Rankin relin- quishes his temp, commn. on ceasing to be empld.; Oct. 26. Medical Branch Flight-Lieut, A. Parker relinquishes his temp, eommn. on ceasing to be empld., and is permitted to retain the rank of Capt. ; Oct. 6. Flight-Lieut. (Hon. Sqdn. Ldr.) J. Keenan relinquishes his temp, commn. on ceasing to be empld., and is granted the rank of Maj. ; Oct. 7. AIR. FORCE Dental Branch The following offrs. are transfd. to the Army Dental Corps (and will receive all emoluments from Army funds), with effect from the dates indicated. They will continue to hold their temp. R.A.F. commns. while attd. to the R.A.F. :— Flight-Lieuts.— Actg. Sqdn. Ldr. C. L. Colbran, D. Blair ; April 1. Fligkt-Lieuts.—L. S. Woodiwis, D. H. W. Williamson, G. F. Charles, A. Williams, J. H. W. Fitzgerald; July 1. Flight-Lieut.—J. Wren ; Aug. 1. Gazette, June 28, regarding Flight-Lieut. (Actg.-Sqdn.-Ldr.) C. L, Colbran and Flight-Lieut. D Blair is cancelled. Lieut, (tem. Capt.) N. H. Medhurst (Army Dental Corps) is granted a temp, commn. as a Flight-Lieut, in the R.A.F. while attached for R.A.F. duty ; June 27. Stores Branch The temp, commn. of Flying Offr. H. J. Cooper is terminated on cessation of duty ; Oct. 10. Memorandum One Cadet is granted an hon. commn. as Sec. Lieut. ; Feb. 9, 1919. Erratum Gazette, Oct. 14, page 8,104 :—For J. P. Walters, M.B.E., read J. P. Walters. ^, London Gazette, October 38 Flying Branch Sec. Lieut. L. W. Sage is transferred to the unemployed list ; April 12, 1919 (substituted for Gazette April 18, 1919. Observer Offr. R. E. W. Sandall (Lieut. Lines R.) relinquishes his temp, commn. on resigning his commn. in the Regular Army, and is permitted to retain the rank of Lieut. ; Oct. 29. Memoranda Hon. Sec. Lieut. F. L. Braithwaite relinquishes his hon. commn. July 24, 1919. Hon. Sec. Lieut. P. Robertson relinquishes his hon. commn. on joining the Army ; Dec. 9, 1919. Capt. (actg. Maj.) the Hon. J. H. B. Rodney, M.C., is transferred to the unemployed list; March ft, 1919 (substitute for GasetU, April 4, 1919). Three Cadets are granted hou. commns. as Sec. Lieuts., with effect from the dates of their demobilisation ROYAL AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE Forthcoming Appointments.—It is notified for information that the following appointments in the Royal Air Force will take place early in 1922 :— To the Command of the Royal Air Force in F.gypt.—Air Vice-Marshal Sir E. L. Ellington, K.C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E. vice Air Vice-Marshal Sir Geoffrey Salmond, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O. To be Director-General of Supply and Research.—Air Vice-Marshal Sir Geoffrey Salmond, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., vice Air Vice-Marshal Sir E. L. Ellington, K.C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E. Appointments.—The following appointments in the Royal Air Force are notified :— Squadron-Leaders B. L. Huskisson, D.S.C., from No. 84 Squadron (Middle East Area) to Iraq Group Headquarters (Middle East Area). (Super- numerary.) 1.10.21. W. Sowrey, A.F.C., from No. 30 Squadron (Middle East Area) to command No. 84 Squadron (Middle East Area).^_i.10.21. Flight-Lieutenants I. L. Wincer, from No. 4 Stores Depot to No. 2 Flying Training School (Inland Area). 25.10.21. A. G. N. Belneld, from No. 4 Stores Depot to Electric and Wireless School (Inland Area). 26.10.21. C. E. Wardle, from Record Office (Inland Area) to R.A.F. Depdt (Inland Area), (Supernumerary). 28.10.21. R. G. Home, from No. 1 Group Headquarters (Inland Area) to Marine and Armament Experimental Estab- lishment (Coastal Area). 8.11.21. W. B. Everton, from R.A.F. (Cadet) College (Flying Wing), (Cranwell) to R.A.F. Dep6t (Inland Area). (Super- numerary). 18.10.21. B. C. Meates, from Headquarters( Coastal Area) to R.A.F. (Cadet) College (Flying Wing), (Cranwell). 27.10.21. E. F. Turner, A.F.C., from No. 1 Flying Training School (Inland Area) to School of Technical Training (Men), (Inland Area). (Supernumerary). 1.11.21. G. C. Parie, M.C., from Inspector of Recruiting (Coastal Area) to R.A.F. Depdt (Inland Area). (Supernumerary). 12.10.21. IN PARLIAMENT Enemy Air Raids (Compensation Claims) MK. BOWERMAN, on October 25, asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if be is aware that claims for compensation for loss of homes de- stroyed by enemy air-raids in London in September, 1915, still remain unsettled ; that the sufferers have made repeated application to the Repara- tion Claims Department, but without satisfactory result; and if he can state when these compensation claims are likely to be settled ? Mr. Young : All claims in respect of air-raid damage which have not already been satisfied will be submitted by the Reparation Claims Department to the Royal Commission on Compensation for Suffering and Damage by Enemy Action, which was appointed on the 15th August last. The Royal Commission will recommend the distribution in grants to individuals of the first sum of £5,000,000 received by this country from Germany on account of reparation. The amounts hitherto received from Germany are insufficient to satisfy the prior claim for cost of occupation, and accordingly nothing has yet been received on account of reparation. I am unable to state when the sum of £5,000,000 on account of reparation will be received, Mr. Bowerman : Is the hon. gentleman aware that in the neighbourhood of Deptford working-class homes were destroyed and lives were lost, that though those concerned have waited for six years, they have had no com- pensation ; and could not the matter be expedited ? Mr. Young : I think the terms of the answer I have just read out give the decision of the Government on the question of the principle involved in this matter. I could not at the moment make any departure. Airships SIR W. JOYNSON-HICKS asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he can make any statement as to the negotiations with the Dominions in reference to the continuance of airships; and what is the present position of the material and staff connected with lighter-than-air craft ? Capt. Guest: I am, at present, unable to make any statement as to the negotiations with the Dominions on this matter, as no official notification has yet been received. As regards the second part of the question, the whole of the airships, material and stores likely to be of use in the event of airship operations being continued, is being stored at Cardington and Pulham. The personnel at these stations is being reduced until no more is left than will suffice for care and maintenance parties. The Royal Air Force airship per- sonnel not required for storing the airships and airship material, or for the care and maintenance parties at Pulham and Cardington, are being absorbed in the general service of the Royal Air Force. Sir W. Joynson-Hicks : Are any of them being turned out of the service ? Capt. Guest: They are being absorbed. Airship "R.3S" (Design)REAR-ADMIRAL SUETER, on October 26, asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty who was responsible for the design of rigid airship " R. 38 "; and what was the procedure in regard to checkingithe designTof this airship ? The Secretary of State for Air ; I have been asked to reply to this question. The airship was designed in September, 1918, by the airship design staff, which was transferred from the Admiralty to the Air Ministry on October 22, 1919, by which date the construction of the airship had been ^egun. The procedure adopted for passing and checking the design, upon which any question as to responsibility would hinge, is still under investigation by the Aeronautical Research Committee. Mr. Raper : Will the right hon. gentleman publish as a White Paper the full reports of the enquiries which have been held and which will be held as to the cause of the disaster ? Capt. Guest : I am not sure it has not already been done ; if it has not been done, it is in process of being done. Aerodynamical Department, National Physical Laboratory LIEUT.-COL. MOORE-BRABAZON asked the Secretary of State for Air whether it is proposed to close the aeronautics department of the National Physical Laboratory ; and whether this action is on the advice of the Aero- nautical Research Committee ? Capt. Guest : The decision not to maintain after the conclusion of the current financial year the Aerodynamical Department of the National Phvsical Laboratory, arrived at solely in view of the urgent need to effect every possible economy, was not taken on the advice of the Aeronautical Research Committee. Strong representations have been made that this Department should be retained in the interests of aeronautics, and I am hoping still to preserve its most vital functions, if a sufficient reduction in the cost of its upkeep can be effected. Director of Research LIEUT.-COL. MOORE-BRABAZON asked whether the Director of Research at the Air Ministry has had any experience at all of research work in any direction ? Capt. Quest : As my hon. and gallant friend is aware, the officer in question —Air Commodore H. R. M. Brooke-Popham, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., A.F.C.— has had practical experience of night and its problems from a very early date. He has also had a wide and varied experience of research work in connection with aeronautics during the two years and nine months for which he has held his post. Helicopter LIEUT.-COL. MOORE-BRABAZON asked whether the Aeronautical Research Committee have ever been consulted as to the expenditure of money upon the building of a helicopter ; and, if so, was their opinion favourable towards such construction ? Capt. Guest: The answer to the first part of the question is in the>egative, and the second part does not, therefore, arise. 720
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