Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service
Westgate.
Aged: 24 Yrs. Son of Joseph. Seaplane accident on the 13th March 1917. At the outbreak of war he was a 1st Officer on one of the British India Steam Navigation Vessels. Gazetted to the R.N.A.S in 1915. Funeral took place on the 16th March 1917. (info by EHL)
On the 13th March 1917 Flight Sub Lieutenant Rowland Birks and Leading Air Mechanic Ernest Rawson took off for a local flight and firing practice in Short Seaplane 9058, from RNAS Westgate. Whilst flying 1 mile off of Cliftonville the seaplane was seen to plummet into the sea, motor launch ML 123 was quickly on the scene but both airmen were found to be dead. Normally the observer would have been an WT operator, but on this occasion he was an armourer.
(From Friends of Margate Cemetery, provided by wertypop)
Westgate.
Aged: 24 Yrs. Son of Joseph. Seaplane accident on the 13th March 1917. At the outbreak of war he was a 1st Officer on one of the British India Steam Navigation Vessels. Gazetted to the R.N.A.S in 1915. Funeral took place on the 16th March 1917. (info by EHL)
On the 13th March 1917 Flight Sub Lieutenant Rowland Birks and Leading Air Mechanic Ernest Rawson took off for a local flight and firing practice in Short Seaplane 9058, from RNAS Westgate. Whilst flying 1 mile off of Cliftonville the seaplane was seen to plummet into the sea, motor launch ML 123 was quickly on the scene but both airmen were found to be dead. Normally the observer would have been an WT operator, but on this occasion he was an armourer.
(From Friends of Margate Cemetery, provided by wertypop)
Flight Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Air Service
Westgate.
Aged: 24 Yrs. Son of Joseph. Seaplane accident on the 13th March 1917. At the outbreak of war he was a 1st Officer on one of the British India Steam Navigation Vessels. Gazetted to the R.N.A.S in 1915. Funeral took place on the 16th March 1917. (info by EHL)
On the 13th March 1917 Flight Sub Lieutenant Rowland Birks and Leading Air Mechanic Ernest Rawson took off for a local flight and firing practice in Short Seaplane 9058, from RNAS Westgate. Whilst flying 1 mile off of Cliftonville the seaplane was seen to plummet into the sea, motor launch ML 123 was quickly on the scene but both airmen were found to be dead. Normally the observer would have been an WT operator, but on this occasion he was an armourer.
(From Friends of Margate Cemetery, provided by wertypop)
Westgate.
Aged: 24 Yrs. Son of Joseph. Seaplane accident on the 13th March 1917. At the outbreak of war he was a 1st Officer on one of the British India Steam Navigation Vessels. Gazetted to the R.N.A.S in 1915. Funeral took place on the 16th March 1917. (info by EHL)
On the 13th March 1917 Flight Sub Lieutenant Rowland Birks and Leading Air Mechanic Ernest Rawson took off for a local flight and firing practice in Short Seaplane 9058, from RNAS Westgate. Whilst flying 1 mile off of Cliftonville the seaplane was seen to plummet into the sea, motor launch ML 123 was quickly on the scene but both airmen were found to be dead. Normally the observer would have been an WT operator, but on this occasion he was an armourer.
(From Friends of Margate Cemetery, provided by wertypop)
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