A pilots' war     1915-1918

No 2 Sqn RFC aircrew 9 April to 16 August 1915 Commanding Officers: CO Maj. Tom I Webb-Bowen [later T/Brigadier II Brigade 1918]  CO from 1 June 1915 Maj. John H W Becke [later T/Brigadier II Brigade 1918]  No. 2 Sqn RFC Officers (circa May 1915) Back row: Secker, Wallace, Whiteman, Leighton, Milne, Lees, Smith Front row: Collins, Lloyd, Sweet, James Aircrew  & ground crew in alphabetical order: Lt. Ashly Capt. Maurice Bernal Blake Pilot Flight Commander AM Beetlestone (Gd Crew) AM Bowen (Gd Crew) AM Bridger (Gd Crew) Capt. Thomas Walter Colby Carthew DSO Pilot [later Lt. Col, CO 4 Sqn July 1916] Lt. (Alexander C?) Clarke Pilot Capt. H J (John) Collins Pilot Capt. Cooper [poss R A Cooper CO 2 Sqn July 1916] Lt. A W Davis Observer Capt. (poss Leonard) Dawes 'C' Flight Commander (in May 1915) Lt. Hereward de Havilland Pilot (later Major, DSO, CO 30 Sqn, Iraq) Lt. Sholto Douglas Observer (not mentioned in text, went to pilot training late May 1915) [later Major CO 84 Sqn] Lt. (poss Keith Frederick William) Dunn Pilot Lt. Ellison Observer Capt. Wilfred Freeman, B (wireless) Flight Commander [later CO 14 Sqn, Lt Col 9th Wing & Col OC 2 Training Group 1918] 2nd Lt. Charles R Gallie Pilot KIA 22 August 1915 AM Girling (Gd Crew) AM Goodwin (Gd Crew) Cpl. Hales (Gd Crew) Capt. John Glanville Hearson  'C'  Flight Commander (from 6 July 1915) [later CO 5 Sqn & T/Brigadier Director of Training 1918] Capt. J R Campbell Heathcote Pilot Capt. Heaton-Hall Sgt. Hodgson (Gd Crew) Lt. (?JL) Jackson WIA April(?10 May) 1915 Lt. James MC Lt. Ralph Tolerton Leather Pilot Lt. Lees Observer Capt. John Burgh Talbot Leighton, 'C'  Flight Commander (June 1915)  [later Major, CO 23 Sqn KWF 7 May 1917] Lt. Ivor Lloyd, Observer [flew with Rhodes Moorhouse] Lt. Robert Loraine Pilot [the "actor-pilot", later CO 40 Sqn & Lt. Col] Lt. R N Marshall Observer [flew with Robert Loraine] Lt. (Barry?) Martin Pilot Lt. Harold William Medlicott pilot Capt. Mitchell Observer Lt. Marmaduke Henry Monckton Pilot [KWF 9 July 1915 with 8 Sqn] Capt. William Milne, Observer [Pilot from Sep 1915, 25 Sqn, WIA May 1916] Sgt. Nichols (Gd Crew) Lt. William Reid, Pilot [POW August 1915 Immelmann's first victim] Lt. William Rhodes-Moorhouse VC, Pilot [DOW 27 April 1915] Lt. Roberts Observer Lt. Herbert B Russell Observer [later AVM] Capt. Secker, Observer Capt. Frank W Smith Pilot [later Major, CO 62 Sqn 1918] Lt. (Sydney W) Smith Pilot Lt. Sweet Observer Lt. William M Wallace, Observer KIA 22 August 1915 Lt. Whiteman Observer Return to 2 Sqn RFC pilot's diary

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