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* 1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
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1915 and RFC
On Henderson's return to the War Office in the summer of 1915, Trenchard was promoted to brigadier-general and appointed Officer Commanding the RFC in France.
In May 1915 the RNAS took over, until 4 June 1916, when it became RFC Rochford.
In July 1915, with the need for dispatch riders reducing, Portal transferred to the Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ).
As No. 8 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ) it was formed at Brooklands, Surrey on 1 January 1915, equipped with the Royal Aircraft Factory B. E. 2c.
The first incarnation was formed on 8 December 1914 at Saint-Omer in France from a detachment of the RFC HQ to develop the use of radio for reconnaissance missions ; this lasted until March 1915.
Construction of the new aerodrome, to be named " RFC Military School, Ruislip ", began in January 1915.
No. 12 Squadron Royal Flying Corps was formed in February 1915 from a flight of No. 1 Squadron RFC at Netheravon.
1915 and Captain
Captain Bernard Montgomery DSO with a fellow officer of 104th Brigade ( United Kingdom ) | 104th Brigade, 35th Division ( United Kingdom ) | 35th Division, with which he served from January 1915 until early 1917
Beginning in April 1915, Herbert ordered his subordinates cease calling him " Sir ", and to address him only by the pseudonym " Captain William McBride.
The US Navy warship Lexington visited the atoll in late 1915 and advised evacuation of all inhabitants, but the governor, Captain Arnaud, declared that evacuation was not necessary.
* Captain Eustace Jotham and Private John Francis Young were Victoria Cross winners in 1915 and 1918 and were born in Kidderminster
On 13 May 1915 as a Captain in the Royal Dragoons Julian stood talking with other officers, a shell landed a few yards from them, and a splinter of the shell hit him in the head.
* 1913 – 1915: Captain Archibald Percival Wavell
From 1915 to 1918 he was stationed at the Aviation Service at Soesterberg under command of Captain ( later Major ) of Engineers H. Walaardt.
During the Mexican Border Crisis of 1915 Captain Raynal Cawthorne Bolling organized and took command of a unit that became the 1st Aero Company, New York National Guard.
Benn was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the London Yeomanry in 1915 ( later promoted to temporary Captain ) and served with the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War, seeing service at Gallipoli.
During 1915, he negotiated with Captain Franz von Rintelen of German Navy Intelligence for money to purchase weapons and arrange U-boat landings to provide support, while offering ( perhaps as a bargaining chip ) to make war on the U. S., which Germany hoped would end munitions supplies to the Allies.
His grandson Charles Sinclair Elliot ( 1853 – 1915 ) was a Captain in the Royal Navy.
His eldest son, the sixth Baron, was Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard ( Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords ) from 1915 to 1918.
* The Honourable Teddy Meldrum ( Michael Knowles )-Lord Meldrum's younger brother, he had been conscripted as a Captain into the British Army in 1915 and had served in the Infantry on the Western Front, where he was badly injured by a shell and carried back to the field hospital by Stokes and Twelvetrees.
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In August, 1915 he was promoted to Hauptmann ( Captain ) on the General Staff of the 6th Army ( at that time commanded by Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria ).
Captain Edward H. Watson | E. H. Watson, shown here as a commander, 1915
Captain Lanoe Hawker of the Royal Flying Corps, however, had mounted his Lewis gun just forward of the cockpit to fire forwards and outwards, on the left side of his aircraft's fuselage at about a 30 ° angle, on his Scout C, with serial number 1611, and with this aircraft on 25 July 1915, managed to defeat three German two seat observation aircraft to earn the first Victoria Cross awarded to a British aviator.
Captain Pratt was assigned to the Army in Panama and at the Army War College in 1915 – 1917.
The company ’ s commandant was Captain H. S. Scorer ( killed in action at Hohenzollern Redoubt on 13 October 1915 ), Surgeon Colonel Francis John Walker was the chief medical officer, and the regular army drill instructor was Colour Sergeant Wallace Cowling.
In February 1915, the RNAS was placed under the command of the Director of the Air Department ( Captain Murray Sueter ), although disciplinary powers over RNAS personnel were not granted to the Director.
In 1915 a lighthouse was constructed in the lake containing a scale model of the ' Terra Nova ' ship to commemorate Captain Scott's ill-fated voyage to the Antarctic from Cardiff in 1910.
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Meanwhile, Captain Henry C. Mustin successfully designed the concept of the catapult launch, and in 1915 made the first catapult launching from a ship underway.
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