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DECEMBEK 18, 1924 December 2, 1924 London Ga Stores Branch. Flying Officer A. J. Cox, M.B.E., is granted a permanent commit, in rank stated (Dec. 3) ; Flying Officer W. E. V. Richards is granted a permanent commn. in rank stated for accountant duties (Dec. 3). Medical Branch. The follg. are granted short service commns. as Flying Officers, with effect from, and with sen. of Nov. 19 :—W. A. Beck, M.B., D.P.H., J. Parry- Evans. Reserve of Air Force Officers. The follg. are granted commissions on prob. in General Duties Branch, in ranks stated (Dec. 2) :— Class .4.—Flying Officers A. J. R. Adam, F. Horslev M. V. Molony, H. L. Taylor, J. M. Walker, C. N. Wylain. Brown. Class B.—Pilot Officer W. Wilson. Pilot Officer H. B. Elwell is confirmed in rank (Dec. 16, 1923) (substituted for Gazette, Nov. 25). Flying Officer H. A. V. Kirk is transferred from Class A lo Class C (Dec. 2). The follg. relinquish their commas, on account of ill- health, ad are. permitted to retain their ranks (Dec. 3) :—Flight Lieut. J. M. Burke, Flying Officer H. Laycock. London Gazette, December 9, 1924 General Duties Branch The following are granted permanent commns. in ranks stated (Dec. 10) :— Flight-Lieut. J. Oliver, A.F.C., Flying Offr. T. K. French, D.F.C. The following Pilot Officers are promoted to rank of Flying Officer :—B. L. Young t Nov. 15. E. G. Whinney; Nov. 15. J. R. Pocock ; Dec. 14. Flying Offr. F. B. Lawrie is granted the hon. rank of Flight-Lieut. ; Nov. 14. Flying Offr. J. C. McCormick, Pilot Officer J. W. L. Hamilton, M.B.E., D.F.C., is placed on half-pay. Scale B ; Dec. 3. Flight - Lieut. J. E. B. B. Maclean, D.F.C., is placed on retired list; Dec. 10. Flight - Lieut. E. J. Cooper, D.S.C., is transferred to Reserve ; Dec. in. Flying Offr. J. S. Hughes is transferred to Reserve, Class A ; Dec. 12. Flying Offr. C. B. Bond is transferred to Reserve, Class A ; Nov. 19 (substituted for Gazette, Nov. 18). Stores Branch Flying Ofir. G. W. Sturman is placed on retired list on account of ill-health ; Dec. 7. Reserve of Air Force Officers The following are granted commns. on probation in General Duties Branch in ranks stated (Dec. 9) : — Class A.—Flying Officers.—L. F. Ashley, R. G. Hart, M.C., C. N. James, H. C. Kelly. Pilot Officers.—W. R. W. Kellev, M. C. Kerr. A. Smith. Class B.—Pilot Officer W. Mellor. Class BB.—Pilot Officer A. Gillespie. The following Flying Officers are confirmed in rank :—E. Bradley, S. Hamp ton ; Nov. 27. H. S. Robertson ; Dec. 3. Observer Offr. F. W. Brown is transferred from Class C to Class B ; Oct. 18. The following are trans ferred from Class A to Class C :—Flying Officers.—H. E. Browne ; Dec. 9. P. Chauncy ; Dec. 9. Pilot Offr. F. H. Pidgeon ; Oct. 23. Flying Offr. L. R. Robertson relinquishes his commn. on account of ill- health, and is permitted to retain his rank ; Dec. 10. Flying Offr. K. W. Bransby resigns his commn. ; Dec. 9. The commn. of Pilot Offr. on probation T. T. Williams is terminated on cessation of duty ; Dee. 9. Memorandum Sec. Lieut. W. C. Hunt relinquishes his hon. commn. on enlistment in the Army ; Nov. 3. ROYAL AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE Appointments.—The following appointments in the Royal Air Force are notified :— General Duties Branch. Group Captains : J. L. Forbes, O.B.E., to Air Ministry On appointment as Deputy Director cf Armament, 10.12.24. R. P. Ross, D.S.O., A.F.C., to Elec. and Wireless Sch., Flowerdown pending taking over command, 15.12.24. Wing Commander E. D. M. Robertson, D.F.C., to H.Q. Coastal Area for dutv as Fleet Aviation Officer on Staff of Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet in H.M.S. " Revenge ". 10.12.24. Wing Commanders : J. H. A. Landou, D.S.O., O.B.E., to H.Q., Iraq, for Flying (Detached) duties; 27.11.24. S. Smith, D.S.O., A.F.C., to H.Q., Iraq, for Air Staff (Armoured Car) duties ; 27.11.24. Squadron Leaders : F. W. Stent, M.C., P. A. O. Leask and F. E. P. Barring- ton, to H.Q., Iraq ; 27.11.24. L. M. Bailev, A.F.C., to No. 27 Sqdn., India ; 27.11.24. G. S. Trewin, A.F.C., to No. 5 Armoured Car Co., Iraq ; 5.12.24. E. W. Norton, D.S.C., to No. 6 Armoured Car Co., Iraq; 5.12.24. W. B. Farrington, D.S.O., to Basrah Group H.Q. ; 17.11.24. R. P. Willock, to No. 216 Sqdn., Egypt; 2.11.24 Flight Lieutenants : R. E. G. Fulljames, M-C, to No. 28 Sq. India, 2.11.24. A. Ferris to Aircraft Depot Egypt, 1.11.24. W. H. Ellison to R.A.F. Depot (Non-effective Pool) on transfer to Home Estab., 4.11.24. G. O. Venn to No. 31 Sqdn. India instead of to No. 5 Sqdn. as previously notified, 3.10.24. J. Oliver, A.F.C., to H.Q. India, 2.11.24. S. N. Cole to No'. 1 School of Tech. Training (Boys) Halton, 20.11.24. E. Burton to No. 1 Sch. of Tech. Training (Bovs) Halton on transfer to Home Estab., 4.11.24. T. M. Williams, M.C., D.F.C., to No. 406 Flight, Leuchars, 5.12.24. Flight Lieutenants : R. L. Stevenson, M.B.E., to No. 3 Wing H.Q., India. J. A. G. Haslam, M.C., D.F.C., to No. 5 Sqdn., India. E. Thornton, to Aircraft Depot, India. A. C. Sanderson, D.F.C., to No. 31 Sqdn., India. A. H. Stradling, O.B.E., to Rest Camp, Iraq. J. G. S. Candy, D.F.C., to Aircraft Depot, Iraq. T. S. Ivens, to No. 8 Sqdn., Iraq. A. W. Symington, M.C., and G. M. Lawson, M.C., to H.Q., Iraq. O. R. Gayford, D.F.C., to No. 1 Sqdn., Iraq. The foregoing are all posted with effect from 27.11.24. J. F, Lawson, A.F.C., and F. Thomasson, D.F.C., M.M., to H.Q., Iraq ; 5.12.24. D. Colyer D.F.C., to Stores Depot, Iraq ; 5.12.24. Flving Officers: G. R. Oliver to R.A.F. Depot on transfer to Home Estabt. 4.11.24. E. Cuthbert, C. S. Hartung, M.M. and A. P. C. Hannay, M.C., to R.A.F. Depot (Non-Effective Pool) on transfer to Home Estabt., 4.11.24. F. Woolley, D.F.C., to Inland Area Aircraft Depot. Henlow, 8.11.24. (Hon, Fit. Lt.) L. S. Ingle, M.C., to Aircraft Park, India, 31.10.24. Accountant Branch Squadron Leader T. H. Evans, to H.Q., Egypt ; 6.12.24. Flying Officers : E. W. Horncastle, to No. i Sqdn., Iraq ; 27.11.24. E. V. Humphrey, to Aircraft Depot. Iraq ; 27.11.24. F. M. Hall, to No. 70 Sqdn., Iraq; 27.11.24. A. C. Lobley, to No. 8 Sqdn., Iraq ; 6.11.24. J. Freeman- Fowler, to No. 4 Armoured Car Co., Iraq ; 8.1U.24. Medical Branch Wing Commander F. N". B. Smartt, M.B., B.A., to Basrah Combined Hospital, Iraq : 27.11.24. Flight Lieutenants : ( Hon. Sqdu.-Ldr.) W. R. Kemp, B.A., to R.A.F., Depot, 3.12.24. H. B. Troup, to Basrah Group H.Q., Iraq ; 15.8.24. Flving Officers : F. W. G. Smith, M.B., B.A., R. W. White, R. L. C. Fisher, M.B., A. Dickson, M.B., and S. S. Proctor, M.B., to H.Q., Iraq; 27.11.24. T. Glynn, M.B., and A. A. Townsend, M.B., to H.Q., India; 27.11.24. Chaplains' Branch Rev. H. Thomas, B.A., to No. 5 Flying Training Sch., Sealand, on transfer, to Home Estab. 1.11.24. Rev. F. G. B. Sutherland, to H.Q., Cranwell, on appointment to a Short Service Comm., for duty as Chaplain (R.C.). 10.11.24. Rev. D. F. Blackburn, to H.Q., Iraq ; 27.11.24. Rev. J. R. Walkey, M.A. to H.Q., Egypt ; 28.10.24. Naval Appointments The following has been notified by the Admiralty on December 2 :—- Roval Air Force. Group Capt. : R. P. Ross, D.S.O., to Revenge, as Fleet Aviation Officer, on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, on transfer of flag (August IS). The following appointments were announced by the Admiralty on December 12, 1924 : — Royal Air Force Wing Commander E. D. M. Robertson, D.F.C., to Revenge, on staff of Commander-in-Chief, as Fleet Aviation Officer; Dec. 10. <$> • <•> <•> IN PARLIAMENT R.A.F. Pilots and Observers (Emergency List) Sir. J. NALL, on December 11, asked the Secretary of State for Air how many pilots and observers, respectively, are available on the active or reserve lists and liable to be called up for duty in emergency ; and what were the comparable figures in August, 1914 ? Lieut.-Colonel Sir Samuel Hoare : There are on the active list 1,938 qualified officers and airmen pilots, 274 officers and airmen under instruction as pilots, and 45 officers qualified as observers. In the Reserve there are 548 officers qualified as pilots and 59 qualified as observers. Comparable figures for 1914 are not available without an amount of research which would, I think, not be justified. Dependants' Allowances Major HORE-BELISHA asked the Secretary of State for Air, in view of the number of fatal accidents that have taken place, and are taking place, in the Royal Air Force, whether sums of money are invariably payable by way of pension or otherwise to the dependants of officers and men, respectively, when,,these meet their death from a cause attributable to the conditions of the Service ; and, if not, in what conditions they are payable ? Sir S. HOARE : The Regulations relating to the grant of pensions and gratuities to widows and allowances to children dependent relatives of officers and airmen are laid down in Chapter 43 of the King's Regulations and Air Council Instructions for the Royal Air Force, 1924. This volume, which has been laid before the House and is also on sale, shows the conditions governing eligibility for the various crants. A brief summary of the provisions is bound, 'by itself, to be misleading, but, subject to the hon. and gallant Member's" supplementing my answer by referring to the volume in question, I mav say that pension and gratuity are issuable to the widows and allowances to the children (subject to age limits) of officers and airmen whose death is directly attributable to the conditions of service, and, if no widow or child is left, allowances are admissible for other depend ants (that is, parents or brothers and sisters) where they were largely de pendent ou the deceased, and their pecuniary and other circumstances appear to the Air Council to justify the grant. Major Hore-Belisha asked the Secretary of State for Air whether, when an airman dies in the Service from a cause attributable to the conditions of the Service without leaving a widow or child, the Air Council have no power to grant an allowance to his dependants unless the pecuniary or other circum stances of these justify the grant; if so, whether he will state the basis upon which these pecuniary or other circumstances are gauged ; and whether he will take steps to see.that power is given to pay an allowance to such depend ants in the future wherever these suffer financially from the loss of one who has met his death in the Service and has been accustomed to make an allow ance to such dependants ? Sir. S. Hoare : In answer to the first part of the question, one of the con ditions governing the eligibility of dependants other than widows and children (that is, parents, or, if there is no parent living, brothers or sisters) for allow ances, is that their pecuniary and other circumstances are such as, in the opinion of the Air Council, to justify the grant. In answer to the second part, each case is considered on its merits and in the light of all the varying circumstances, and no basis or formula of universal application can be laid down. In answer to the last part, the Regulations are already designed to afford reasonable relief in the kind of dependency to which the hon. and gallant Member refers, and I do not think that any extended powers are necessary. Major Hore-Belisha : Is the right hon. Baronet aware that there are many cases in which the dependants of privates who have been killed have been denied any pension or allowance by his Department, on the ground that they were thought to be sufficiently well off; and will he undertake to regard their cases more sympathetically, in view of the fact that they had hitherto been supported by the deceased ? Sir. S. Hoare : I should be surprised to find that that is so, but if the hon. and gallant Member can give me any cases I shall be glad to have them looked into. 795
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