Number 2 Squadron

This is a garbled attempt to trace some information re the RFC pilots who flew from Scotland to Ireland in 1913.

The first serving officer of the British Army to be awarded a Pilot's Certificate in England
was Captain George William Patrick Dawes who was awarded Certificate No. 17 for qualification on a Humber monoplane at Wolverhampton on 26th July 1910.

Dublin born Captain Dawes died on 17th March 1960 aged eighty. He had served in South Africa between 1900 and 1902 when he was awarded the Queen's Medal with three clasps, and the King's Medal with two clasps. He took up flying privately in 1909 and was posted to the R.F.C. on its formation in 1912. He commanded the Corps in the Balkans from 1916 to 1918, during which time he was awarded the D.S.O. and the A.F.C., was mentioned in despatches seven times, and awarded the Croix de Guerre with three palms, the Serbian Order of the White Eagle, the Order of the Redeemer of Greece and created Officer of the Legion d'Honncur.

He served with the Royal Air Force in the Second World War as a Wing Commander, retiring in 1946 with the M.B.E. He thus was one of the very few officers who served actively in the Boer War and both world wars.


http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1949/1949%20-%201072.html

http://www.freefictionbooks.org/books/w/9945-the-war-in-the-air-vol-1-by-raleigh?start=129


Becke
http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19140722-1.2.43.aspx

Becke at 17000ft in an RE8
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1954/1954%20-%202850.html


Montrose
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1913/1913%20-%200230.html


Waldron
http://www.flickr.com/photos/drakegoodman/5286911411/

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/304359/WALDRON,%20FRANCIS%20FITZGERALD

http://www.crossandcockade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=833&title=harveykelly-or-waldron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_first_Central_Flying_School_course.jpg

http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1912_Aviators_Certificates_-_UK

http://salisburyinquests.wordpress.com/1913-2/merrick-george/