A group of officers of the Royal Flying Corps. These men were among the first flying and administrative officers of the RFC, and some of the first pilots ever qualified by the Royal Aero Club (RAeC certificate numbers and dates in parentheses).[1] Front row, seated (left to right) Lieutenant (later Captain) Geoffrey de Havilland (No. 53, 7/2/1911)[1]:118 Captain (later Air Commodore) Robert Gordon, [2] (No. 166, 6/12/1911)[1]:113 Major (later Air Chief Marshal) Robert Brooke-Popham (No. 108, 18/7/1911)[1]:148 Major (later Major-General) Frederick Sykes, first Officer Commanding the Militar
A group of officers of the Royal Flying Corps. These men were among the first flying and administrative officers of the RFC, and some of the first pilots ever qualified by the Royal Aero Club (RAeC certificate numbers and dates in parentheses).[1] Front row, seated (left to right) Lieutenant (later Captain) Geoffrey de Havilland (No. 53, 7/2/1911)[1]:118 Captain (later Air Commodore) Robert Gordon, [2] (No. 166, 6/12/1911)[1]:113 Major (later Air Chief Marshal) Robert Brooke-Popham (No. 108, 18/7/1911)[1]:148 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)[1]:163 Commander (later Air Commodore) Charles Samson, , first Officer Commanding the Naval Wing of the RFC (No. 71, 25/4/1911)[1]:155 Lieutenant Basil Herbert Barrington-Kennett, Grenadier Guards (first adjutant of the RFC, killed while serving in the Guards, 18 May 1915)[3] (No. 43, 31/12/1910)[1]:127 Rear row, standing (left to right) Captain (later Lt-Col.) George William Patrick Dawes, , Legion d'Honneur, Croix de Guerre[2][4][5] (No. 17, 26/7/1910)[1]:102 Lieutenant (later Captain) Vivian H. N. Wadham[2] (killed in action 17th January 1916)[6] (No. 243, 16/7/1912)[1]:168 Lieutenant (later Air Marshal) Patrick Playfair (No. 283, 3/9/1912)[1]:148 Lieutenant Ronald L. Charteris[2] (founded ABC Motors) (No. 197, 12/3/1912)[1]:95 Lieutenant Alexander Ernest Burchardt-Ashton[2] (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.)[7][8][9] (No. 201, 16/4/1912)[1]:82 Lieutenant (later Commander and Lt-Colonel) Cecil L'Estrange Malone, (No. 195, 12/3/1912 - same day as Charteris)[1]:136 Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel, RAF) Spenser D. A. Grey, [2] (No. 117, 17/8/1911)[1]:114 Lieutenant Alan Geoffrey Fox (died of wounds sustained while flying, M
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