Members of 48 Squadron

List of the members of 48 Squadron from 1st September 1918

	2/Lt. C.A. Allen
	Lt. Ernest Allingham Pilot Born 6th February 1888. Was a Newspaper Manager living at 1, Valdeck Mansions, Oxford Street, London before the war. Obtained his Royal Aero Club Aviators’ Certificate on the 1st March 1917.
	2/Lt. J.J. Ambler Observer Transferred from the Northumberland Fusiliers to the R.F.C. as an observer on 1st August 1918 Reported Missing In Action on the 2nd September 1918. Reliquished his commision on the 14th February 1919 and left the squadron.
	2/Lt. L.W. Beck
	Lt. Thomas Beck M.C. Observer Transferred from the Highland Light Infantry to the R.F.C. as an observer on 1st August 1918. Reported missing in action on the 1st October with his pilot Buckingham. They were both taken prisoner but Beck died from his wounds. Beck is remembered on the Arras Flying Services Memorial
	2/Lt. R. Beesley Pilot M.I.A. 5th Sep P.O.W.
	Lt. E.B. Bouchier
	2/Lt. B.G. Bowen
	Lt. Godfrey Charles Street Bowring Born 1898 in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He initially joned the 2nd London Regiment before transfering into the Royal flying Corps.
	Lt. Raymond Alexander Brunton M.C. Observer Brunton played in the Squadron's rugby team. Brunton was awarded the Military Cross while serving with the Gordon Highlanders "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in an attack. When troops in front of him were held up, he at once realised the situation, led his men forward and put out of action two machine guns and several snipers who were holding up the advance. He set a splendid example to his men." Transferred to the R.F.C. as an observer on 1st August 1918
	Capt. William Buckingham Pilot M.I.A. 1st Oct P.O.W.
	Lt. J.P. Cafferkey
	Jack Clary Air Mechanic
	2/Lt. Philip Arthur Clayson Observer W.I.A. 4th Sep
	Lt. H.A. Cole Pilot M.I.A. 12th Sep P.O.W.
	Capt. Thomas Colvill-Jones Pilot M.I.A. 25 April 1918 P.O.W. D.F.W. 24 May 1918 Biography
	2/Lt. Fred Horace Victor Coomer Observer Born on the 23rd September 1899 in Langport, Somerset. Qualified from Flight Cadet to 2Lt. Observer Officer on the 30th September 1918 Reported Missing In Action on the 26th October and taken Prisioner Of War. Died June 1982 in Bristol.
	2/Lt. Walter N. Coomer Observer
	Lt. James Basil Cowan Pilot M.I.A. 3rd Oct Killed
	Capt. Fredrick Joseph Cunninghame Pilot Aerodrome Aces Link
	Curson
	2/Lt. N. Davis Pilot Killed in an Accident on the 5th September
	2/Lt. Donald Murry Dee Observer Born on the 20th March 1900 in Buxton, Derbyshire. Qualified from Flight Cadet to 2Lt. Observer Officer on the 16th September 1918 Reported Missing in Action on the 4th November. Was taken Prisoner of War. Donald died aged 84 in May 1984.
	2/Lt. R. Evans Observer
	2/Lt. R.L. Ford Observer
	2/Lt. Cecil Rockett Gage Observer Born in October 1899, Axminster, Devon. Qualified from Flight Cadet to 2Lt. Observer Officer on the 19th July 1918 M.I.A. 12th Sep P.O.W. Died in June 1953
	Lt Irvine Owen Gaze Pilot M.I.A. 4th Nov P.O.W. Born 1890, Died 1978
	Capt. M.L. Fitz Gerald Adjutant
	Capt. Edward N. Griffith Pilot
	Pte Thomas Hanford (144072) From Maesteg, Glamorgan, S. Wales Died 10th October 1918 from pneumonia Buried at La Kreule Military Cemetery, Hazebrouck
	2/Lt William F Hanna Observer Canadian from Middle Musquedoboit, Nova Scotia.
	Capt. Arthur Arundell Harcourt-Vernon Pilot M.I.A. 4th Nov P.O.W. Born 12 October 1895 to Herbert Evelyn Harcourt-Vernon and Mary Adelaide Allan Arthur first joined the East Surry Regiment before joining the Royal Flying Corp In 1925 Arthur was working living 67 Douglas Drive, Toronto working as a Clerk when he married Alice Margaret Cayley. Arthur died in June 1971.
	2/Lt. W.E. Harper Observer
	Sgt. Norman Hunt Pilot 10083 Awarded the Chevaliers de l'Ordre de Leopold II et decores de la Croix de Guerre
	Captain August Thayer Iccaci Pilot Born 6th June 1893 in New York City. Joined the R.F.C. in 1917, serving in 20 Squadron. In October 1918 he was made Flight Commander for 48 Squadron but neear the end of the month he was hospitalised for the rest of the war with an eye wound. he was credited with 17 aerial victories.
	2/Lt. Constantine George Imeretinski Russian Pilot Wounded during the bombing of the Bertangles Aerodrome on the 24h August 1918.
	Sgt. Francis Knox Irvine Pilot Born on the 13th November 1897 in Aberdeen. Lived in Summerfield, Peterculter, Aberdeenshire. Obtained his Royal Aero Club Aviators’ Certificate on the 27th June 1918.
	Lt. James Bruce Jameson Youndest Son of Major T.M. and Mrs Lena Jameson of Rye, later of "Moorstock," Sellindge, Kent. Enlisted into 32nd Royal Fusiliers before joining the R.F.C. Killed on the 24th August 1918 during the Air Raid on Bertangles Aerodrome, he was 25 years old. Buried in Villers Bretonneux Military Cemetery and remembered on the Rye War Memorial.
	Lt. Ludlow Norman Jones Observer M.I.A. 3rd Oct Killed aged 21 Son of Ludlow Mainwaring Jones, of Moyroe Nanagh, Co. Tipperary, and the late Georgina Jones. HARLEBEKE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
	Lt T.L.Jones Observer
	Samuel Julian Air Mechanic
	2/Lt. James Neil Keir Observer Qualified from Flight Cadet to 2Lt. Observer Officer on the 19th July 1918  Wounded on the 1st September 1918. Reported Missing in Action when he was taken Prisioner of War on the 20th September 1918,
	2/Lt. W. Kennedy
	Sgt. S. Kitchin Observer M.I.A. 4th Oct P.O.W.
	2/Lt. A.W. Knowles Brown Observer
	Capt. John Herbert Towne Letts Pilot 17th January 1917 - Joined 48 Squadron. 19th September 1917 - Left Squadron to become Testing Instructor. 1st October 1918 - Joined 87 Squadron. 11th October 1918 - Killed in Flying accident. Biography
	Sgt. C.F. Levett Observer
	2/Lt. H.G. Lewis Observer M.I.A. 27th Oct P.O.W.
	2/Lt. J.W. London Observer
	2/Lt. J.F. MacNamara Pilot M.I.A. 4th Nov P.O.W. MacNamara's family were from Yarraville, Melboroune, Austrailia
	Lt. M.R. Mahony Pilot Served with the Royal Irish Fusliers before joining the R.F.C. Was wounded during the Air Raid on Bertangles Aerodrome. Reported Missing In Action on the 20th September 1918 and was taken Prisioner Of War.
	Lt. Etienne Gaston Roger Maillet Pilot Canadian, joined the Squadron on 4th August 1918.
	Lt. Garnett F. Manning Canadian Pilot
	2/Lt. Ian May Broadfoot McCulloch Pilot M.I.A. 2nd Sep P.O.W.
	2/Lt A.M. Miller Observer M.I.A. 5th Sep P.O.W.
	Sgt. James Moffat Pilot Was born 18 July 1898 in Polmont Parish, Stirling
	2/Lt. M.H. Molyneux
	Sgt. H.F. Monday Observer
	2/Lt. C. Nash
	2/Lt. Charles William Newstead Observer Qualified from Flight Cadet to 2Lt. Observer Officer on the 30th September 1918 Reported Missing In Action on the 4th November 1918
	Norris Air Mechanic
	Capt. Harold Anthony Oaks Pilot Born 12th November 1896 in Preston. Ontario, Canada but had British Nationality. Took his Royal Aero Club Aviator's Certificate on the 14th February 1918. There  is a chapter about Oaks in the book Flying Canucks: Famous Canadian Aviator. He was entered into Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame with the following citation. "The professional daring of his aerial expeditions into uncharted regions led others of his reed to colonize the north and bring outstanding benefits to Canadian aviation." Oaks died aged 72 in 1968. Aerodrome Aces Link
	Lt. O. O'Conner Pilot M.I.A. 2nd Sep
	SM C.J. O'Toole Observer
	Major Keith Rodney Park M.C. Squadron Commander Aerodrome Aces Link
	Capt. Leonard Allen Payne M.C. South African Pilot Aerodrome Aces Link
	Sgt. T.F. Perkin Observer
	2Lt. Lawrence Percy Perry Observer Reported Missing in Action when he and his pilot 2/Lt McCulloch failed to return from a patrol on the 2nd Septembr 1918. Born on August 8th, 1898, he was the son of Sybella Amy Perry and the late Percy James Perry, of 22, Wellington Street, Woolwich, London. He was an active member of the Scout movement. Percy was a ‘Trade Lad’ with the Woolwich Arsenal entering the Woolwich Polytechnic at the age of 16, in 1914 and leaving in 1917 to join the forces. His record card shows that he a 100% attendance record, and that his work in the fields of Mathematics, Engineering Drawing and Inorganic Chemistry was consistently of a high standard, attaining 80-90% marks. It was reported in the Woolwich Polytechnic Magazine for December 1918 that: ‘Lieut. Lawrence Perry, RAF. Observer, fell in action, in France, on 2nd September 1918. His machine was seen to fall behind German lines, and for some time it was hoped that he might have been taken prisoner, but news has now been received by his parents that he was killed.’ (WPM Dec. 1918, p.17). Percy is remebered on the Arras Flying Services Memorial and the Woolwich Polytechnic Memorial Plaque.
	Capt. F.J. Phillips Pilot
	2/Lt. Charles Robert Pickering Observer From 30, The Broadway, Lower Edmonton. Originally served with the Royal Horse Guards as a Lance Corporal (2165) in France from the 13th August 1915. Transferred to the R.F.C. as an observer on 16th August 1918
	2/Lt John Pugh Observer Qualified from Flight Cadet to 2Lt. Observer Officer on the 19th July 1918.  Joined the Squadron on the 4th August 1918 John's son Peter Pugh reading a letter from John Pugh Quotes from Pugh in an article debating whether during a dogfight the airman could see resulting bullet holes in the enemy aircraft
	2/Lt. Thomas Gillie Rae Pilot Born 2nd January 1886 in Glasgow. Living at 48 Grosvenor Square S.W. in 1917 Took his Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificate in a Grahame-White Biplane at the Grahame-White School, Hendon on the 8th December 1917. Rea qualified as a Flying Ace with 6 recorded victories and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Aerodrome Aces Link
	Lt. William Stanley Rycroft Pilot W.I.A. 30th Sep Quotes from Rycroft in an article debating whether during a dogfight the airman could see resulting bullet holes in the enemy aircraft
	2/Lt. W. Saunders Pilot M.I.A. 27th Oct P.O.W.
	2/Lt. G.C. Schofield Observer Transferred from the Leicestershire Regiment to the R.F.C. as an observer on 1st August 1918. Wounded in Action on the 13th September 1918.
	Lt. B.E. Sharwood-Smith Pilot
	Lt E.C. Shurley Pilot
	2/Lt. F.G. Smith Observer
	2/Lt. T. Stroud
	Lt. A.N.G. Summers Transferred from the 9th Lancers to the R.F.C.
	Lt. Jack Aubery Sykes Pilot M.I.A. 4th Oct Son of Mr. J. Dixon Sykes and Hope Sykes, of Langley Rectory, Maidstone. Born in 1899 in Clewer, Windsor. Jack's older brother, Captain Ronald Arthur Sykes, died the previous year, aged 20, on Saturday 28th April 1917 while serving with the 7th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
	Lt George Thornton-Norris Pilot
	2/Lt. Herbert Thomas Pilot M.I.A. 26th Oct
	Sgt. John Uphill Pilot Born 9th October 1898 in London. Was living at The White Horse, Norton Heath, Blockmore, Essex. Obtained his Royal Aero Club Aviators’ Certificate on the 15th September 1918. A.S.C. (M.T.)
	2/Lt. H.L. Ward Observer
	Lt. R. Watson Observer
	2/Lt. A.F. Watts
	Sgt. R.L.G. White Observer (110761)
	2/Lt. H.C. Wood Observer W.I.A. 30th Sep