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- Lieutenant (later Captain) Geoffrey de Havilland (No. 53, 7/2/1911)
- Captain (later Air Commodore) Robert Gordon, R.M. (No. 166, 6/12/1911)
- Major (later Air Chief Marshal) Robert Brooke-Popham (No. 108, 18/7/1911)
- Major (later Major-General) Frederick Sykes, first Officer Commanding the Military Wing of the RFC, later Chief of the Air Staff (No. 95, 20/6/1911)
- Commander (later Air Commodore) Charles Samson, R.N., first Officer Commanding the Naval Wing of the RFC (No. 71, 25/4/1911)
- Lieutenant (later Major) Basil Herbert Barrington-Kennett, Grenadier Guards; first adjutant of the RFC under Sykes. Author of 1912 article Military Aeronautics in France. In preparing the Corps for their ordeal of 1914, "He was a great disciplinarian, he knew every officer and man individually, he was universally liked, and he did more perhaps than any one else to hold the corps together and to train it in an efficient routine." Killed while serving in the Guards, 18 May 1915 (No. 43, 31/12/1910)
Rear row, standing (left to right)
- Captain (later Lt-Col.) George William Patrick Dawes, D.S.O, Legion d'Honneur, Croix de Guerre (No. 17, 26/7/1910)
- Lieutenant (later Captain) Vivian H. N. Wadham (killed in action 17th January 1916) (No. 243, 16/7/1912)
- Lieutenant (later Air Marshal) Patrick Playfair (No. 283, 3/9/1912)
- Lieutenant Ronald L. Charteris (founded ABC Motors) (No. 197, 12/3/1912)
- Lieutenant Alexander Ernest Burchardt-Ashton (Resigned commission in RFC because drunk while flying at Brooklands; transferred to Dragoon Guards. Re-enlisted in 22 Bn. Royal Fusiliers, Lance-Corporal; killed near Ypres 10/11 July 1916.) (No. 201, 16/4/1912)
- Lieutenant (later Commander and Lt-Colonel) Cecil L'Estrange Malone, R.N. (No. 195, 12/3/1912 - same day as Charteris)
- Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel, RAF) Spenser D. A. Grey, R.N. (No. 117, 17/8/1911)
- Lieutenant (later Captain) Alan Geoffrey Fox, Royal Engineers; died of wounds sustained while flying, May 1915 (No. 176, 30/1/1912)
References:
- ↑ Aviators' Certificates 1910–1930. Royal Aero Club of Great Britain.
- ↑ Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913, pp. 34, 35
- ↑ Raleigh, Walter (1922) The War in the Air: being the Story... Vol. 1, History of the Great War: based on official documents, The Clarendon Press, pp. 236, 240, 248 et passim
- ↑ "Obituary". Aeronautical Journal, April-June 1915, p. 79
- ↑ George William Patrick Dawes. Grace's Guide.
- ↑ "Steady, Colonel"
- ↑ Captain V H N Wadham, RFC
- ↑ Great War forum
- ↑ Alexander Ernest Burchardt-Ashton. Graces's Guide
- ↑ "Alexander Ernest Burchardt-Ashton". Great War Commemoration.