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London Gazette, January 17, 1922 Air-Commodore O. Swann, C.B., C.B.E., is appt. Director of Personnel, Air Ministry ; Jan. 5. General Duties Branch Flying Offr. G. M. Bryer, A.F.C., is granted a perm, commn. in rank stated, retaining his present seny. ; Oct. 24, 1919. (Gazette Oct. 24, 1919, apptg. him to a short service commn. is cancelled.) The following are granted short .service commns. in ranks stated, with effect from, and with seny. of, the dates indicated :— Flying Ojfrs.—J. E. R. Hyson ; Jan. 7. B. P. Jones ; Jan. 4. L. de G. Sieveking, D.S.C. ; Jan. 6. Pilot Offr. on Probation.—L. A. L. Firmin ; Jan. 2. Sqdrn. Ldr. F. W. Scarff, M.B.E., is placed on retd. list, and is permitted to retain rank of Maj. ; Dec. 31, ig2r. Nursing Service. The following ladies are confirmed in their appts. as Staff Nurses, with effect from dates indicated :—Miss D. H. Rich ; Jan. 27, 1921. Miss L. E. Taylor ; June 15, 1921. Miss A. M. Cosgrove ; June 25, 1921. Mrs. L. L. Mackenzie; July 1 ,1921. The following Staff Nurses to be Sisters (Jan. 1):— M. E. Cunningham, M. E. Sears. Memoranda. Lieut. E. Maffey relinquishes his temp, commn. on ceasing to be empld., and is permitted to retain his rank ; Jan. t. Maj. K. L. Buist, R.A.R.O., late Highland L.I., is granted rank of Lieut. Col. R.A.F., on retirement from Army. Lieut, (actg. Capt.) F. A. Roberts is transferred to unempld. list ; Feb-. 2, 1919. (Gazettes July 22, 1919, April 27, 1920, and May 8, 1920, are cancelled) (since relinquished). London Gazette, January 20, 1922 General Duties Branch Observer Offr. H. fimith, D.F.C., is removed from the R.A.F. ; Jan. 21. Sqdn. Leader T. G. Hetherington, C.B.E., is restored to full pay from half-pay ; Jan. 6. Memoranda Two cadets are granted hony. commns, as Sec. Lieuts., with effect from the dates of their demobilisation. Sec. Lieut. J. Miller relinquishes his temp, commn. on ceasing to be employed, and is permitted to retain his rank ; March 22, 1919. Married Mr. JAMES KIDD, late 10th Hussars and R.A.F., of Capilla, Queensland, was married on January 10, in the Cathedral, Sydney, N.S.W., to Miss MARY MARTIN, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Martin, of Colleton, Chulmleigh, Devon. Group-Capt C. L. N. NEW-ALL, C.M.G., C.B.E., A.M., R.A.F., was married on January 18, at St. George's, Prince's Row, to Mrs. M. M. D. WEDDELL. Flight-Lieut. R. Adden- brooke-Prout, O.B.E., M.C., Royal Air Firce, was best man. To be Married An engagement is announced between LORD CARBERY, who is at present in British East Africa, and Mia? ANDERSON, of The Lodge, Riverdale, Nairobi. Lord Carbery, who was born in 1892, succeeded to the title in 1898, and served in the R.N.A.S. during the War. Lord Carbery's seat is at Castle Freke, Clonakilty, Co. Cork, but he has lived a great deal in Paris. A marriage has been arranged between Mr. R. L. BARBOUR, D.F.C., R.A.F., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Barbour, Cape Town, South Africa, and Edinburgh, and ANNA, the only daughter of Lieut.-Col. J. D. MACKAV, D.S.O., late of the Hampshire Regt. and Seaforth Highlanders, and Mrs. MacKay, of The Rowans, Ashvale, Surrey. Killed Flight-Lieut. ALBERT GROUNDES PEACE, A.F.C., NO. 8 Sqdn. R.A.F., husband of Dorothy Helen Peace, of Salisbury, was killed in a collision during formation flying on January 13 at Hinaidi, Mesopotamia. HI III The Airship Officers Club THE next Dinner of the A.O.C. will be held on Wednesday, February 8. This date has been selected to suit officers interested in the Air Conference. Rear-Admiral Murray Sueter, M.P., has consented to preside. It is hoped that as many officers as possible will be able to attend. The airship situation is now most interesting, and it is hoped that the Imperial Airship Service will be started in the course of the present year, and that the Airship Officers Club will then be able to enroll new members both at home and abroad to fill the places of those who have dropped out. The Annual General Meeting will take place before the dinner. Further particulars as to time and place will be published in FLIGHT and Morning Post on February 1. The cost of the dinner (exclusive of wine) and subscription will be £1. Extra tickets 12s. 6d. Applications and communications should be addressed to Major G. F. Herron (Hon. Sec), at the Junior Naval and Military Club, Piccadilly, W. Ex-R.N.A.S. Officers in Canada THE third reunion of ex-R.N.A.S. officers in Canada was held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Montreal, on December 10, and took the form of a banquet. Capt. F. T. WILLIAMS, M.C., R.A.F., died in the Connaught Military Hospital, Farnborough, on January 18 from injuries received on January 10 from a crash at Farnborough. At the time Capt. Williams was flying a small B.A.T. 'plane. When over some huts adjoining the Connaught Hospital the engine appeared to stop, and the 'plane fell almost perpendicularly, crashing with the pilot through the roof of a hut. Capt. Williams was one of the best-known sportsmen in the garrison, and played cricket for Aldershot Command and for the Army. Item IT is with regret that we have to record the death, under somewhat -tragic and pathetic circumstances, of an old Hendonian friend in Michael Geoffrcv Smiles, who was killed on Wednesday, the 18th inst., by a fall from a window of his house at Edgware. Mr. Smiles, it appears, was suffering from a serious nervous breakdown, brought about by the failure of his business—which was, we believe, connected with a chocolate factory.—and was, it seems, so greatly depressed in consequence that he jumped from his window in the absence of the nurse attending him. Smiles was an exceptionally skilful and daring pilot, and during the War, as chief pilot to the London and Provincial Flying School, was responsible for turning out very many first-class pilots. As an instructor he was one of the best, for he had that rare gift of being able not only to impart his knowledge to his pupil to the best advantage, but of understanding the individuality of each pupil and winning his absolute confidence. In 1916 he put up a looping record -—with the representative of FLIGHT as passenger—of 22 consecutive loops, on the L. and P. tractor biplane. To his widow, the daughter of his former partner, W. T. Warren, we offer our sincerest sympathies in her bereavement. H E Wind-Comdr. Leckie, D.S.Q., D.S.C., D.F.C., Canadian Air Force, presided, the following officers being present :— Wing-Comdrs. J. L. Gordon, Robert Leckie, Ronald Redpath. Sqdn.-Ldrs. Basil Hobbs, C. MacLaurin, A. B. Shearer, W. C. Power, L. S. Breadner, J. A. Glenn. Flight-Lieuts. Geo. R. Hodgson, Fred Fraser, W. R. Kenny, Hugh Peck, York Wilks, Gordon Harrower, Frank S. McGiil, A. T. Whealy, Philip Fisher, E. C. Stoneman, " Gus "Edwards, Marcil Dubuc, " Curley " Boswell, Barkley Drummond, Bainbridge Hall, Mostyn Lewis, W. A. Curtis, R. Keirstead. Allan Wilson, A. Partridge, Ross Johnson, " Bunny " Emery, Norman Scott, J. G. P. Cleland. These first gatherings have proved such a success that it has been decided that the re-union should be held annually at a definite time and place to be fixed hereafter (the next, probably in the autumn or early winter of 1922, somewhere in Eastern Canada, possibly Montreal), and Flight-Lieut. H. Edwards, who sends us particulars of this gathering, would be glad to receive the names and addresses of any ex-R.N.A.S. officers who would care to be present should they find themselves in Canada about that time Announcements will be sent in good time, and those interested should address Flight-Lieut. Edwards at The Air Board (H.Q. Canadian Air Force), Ottawa, Canada.
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