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GRIM TRAGEDY OF THE AIR

the R33 and R36 in 1920. Irishman.

their country, also the injured survivors."-Reuter

Lord Thomson.· ́ [Christopher Birdwood Thomson, (Continued from Page (7)

the soldier-diplomat who became munder the R34 in its light from transmitted at -1.50 in the morn-Labour pear and Minister, was England to the United States and ing reported her position as two born in 1875 and is the son of back in 1919 and Colonel Richmond, kilometres

north of Beauvais, Major-General Thomson. Educat- who designed the R101, All three which was forty miles north ofed at Cheltenham College and the flew to Canada this summer aboard Paris, travelling at a very low al-Royal Military College, Woolwich, itude owing to the atmospheric he entered the army in 1894. He Flight Lieut. Irwin commanded conditions. It ends with this fought in the Mashonaland cam- He is an pathetic note-At the moment, paign and the South African war, the passengers. after an excellent being promoted brevet-major fot Squadron Leader Johnston was meal and enjoying a number of his services. In 1902 he was op navigator to the Air Secretary in cigars, are getting ready to go to pointed instructor at the School of Military Engineers. Chatham. the first Imperial Airways flight to bed." India and back in 1927.

After a term in West Africa in 1906-7 Beauvais, Yesterday. Mr. Gilbett was a member of the

he passed through the airship mission to South Africa, It is now confirmed that there Staff College in 1910-1 and held Australia, New Zealand and India are only eight survivors of the a post in the War Office from 1911 to 1914, during which period in 1927. He organised the

he witnessed the Balkan wars as teorological services for

British of the to Canada ship flights

Leech, Interviewed, says that representative the tail broke when the airship army. Egypt-India route.

R101 recently had an extra sec-fell. The pilot vainly tried

When the world-war broke out. As she he was gazetted to the general tion embodied, increasing the gas pull the airship upwards.

of the staff in France, but in 1915 was capacity by about half a million dipped, the front section

into an orchard, Lappointed military attache and cubic feet, making the length 770 airship crashed feet. It had the most spacious pas- and the rear part fell into an ad-chief of the military mission in senger accommodation of any air-jolning wood.

The Tail Breaks.

me R101. Thirty-two bodies air-been recovered.

the

and

the

have

to

ship yet built, located in two An inextricable mass of debris decks, consisting of a large saloon, of all sorts covers a wide area.

Roumania..

When Labour came into power:

in 1924, Thomson, who was

A

a lounge with a raised promenade The Inhabitants of neighbour-member of the Labour party, was

at either end, and a separate dining ing villages rushed to the spot in raised to the peerage by tamsay room seating fifty persons. A motor-cars. on horses and bicycles, MacDonald and appointed Secre novel feature was fireproof but were unable to approach the

smoke room,

Roomy Cabins.

wreckage owing to the flames.

A strong force of gendarmes is The guarding the wreckage to prevent The cabins were roomy. kitchen was electrically equipped. activities by souvenir hunters. The whole colour scheme was white) and gold with curtains of blue.

R101

Salvage Work.

The French Air Minister, M.

tary of State for Air. He became an enthusiast on the subject and cet himself to master the tech- nicalities of flying: He was very popular with his subordinates-]

Sir Sefton Brancker: (Air Vice-Marshal Sir William

and was A was also the first airship Laurent Eynac, has arrived, and Sefton Brancker, K.C.R., had a

distinguished career equipped with engines burning saluted the victims on behalf of

The recognised authority oh aviation. heavy oil fuel, one of the main the French Government. features of the official policy of grim work of salvage began at He had been Director of Civil "safety first,"

daylight, when fremen and gen- Aviation, Air Ministry, since, 1922. The flying crew consisted of five darmes forced their way into the Born on March 22, 1877, he was the eldest son of the late Col. officers and 37 men, who wore the mass of debris and extricated w. G. Brancker, C.B. Educated at newly-designed dark blue uniform.number of bodies, naked, charred, Bedford and the Royal Military The personnel was entirely civilian, contorted' and unrecognisable.

Academy at Woolwich he receiv with the exception of Wing Com These were placed on stretchers ed a Commission in the Royal Ar- mander Colmore, Flight Lieut. aid in a row by a hedge. Irwin, and one N.C.O.

A metal saw and the blowpipes The known survivors include Mr. of the salvage party kept up an Leech, a foreman engineer of the Incessant din. Royal Airship Works, who served) The eighth survivor is a rigger in the Naval Air Service, alrship named Church. It is stated inpointments until 1912.

His first connection with flying section, in wartime; Mr. Beil, an the local hospital that none of engineer, who was a member of the the eight survivors' lives is in was as milltary observer on a Leech, Brinks and Bell. Alght in India in 1911 and after a R33 breakaway crew; Mr. Disley. danger.

of Miltary the wireless operator, who went to who left hospital after being brief term in the War Office was

appointed Deputy

He was Canada on the R100; Mr. Binks, bandaged, returned later and are

Aeronautics in 1914. engineer, who joined the R33 in now fast asleep. 1925. The engineers Messrs. Cook Hitherto forty-seven bodies have Director of Air organisation from and Savory and the rigger Mr. been recovered, of which only 1916 to 1917 and commanded the no Afteen are likely to be iden-.F.C. in the Middle East towards Radcliffe, also survivors, had previous flying experience.-Reuter, tifiable.

The First News

London, Yesterday.

The King's Message..

[

tillery in 1896, and served in the South African war with the Horse

and Field Artillery

and later in

India. He held various staff ap-

the end of 1017.

Retiring in 1919 with a view, to generally developing commercial London, Yesterday. aviation he was made British re- H.M. the King has sent the fol- presentative of the International the Prime Commission of Air Navigation, lowing message to

and was chairman of the' racing Minister:

committee of the Royal Agro Club. He was gazetted Air Vice-Marshal in 1924.]

After Reuter's agency had flash- ed the first news of the airship tragedy, one of the first mess

"I was horrified to hear of this ages reporting the disaster to the Air Ministry came from one of national disaster, which has be- a consequent the survivors. Disley, who after fallen R101 with escaping from the burning air serious foss of life, including my

The Queen and I [Major Scott was navigator of. ship managed to reach a telephone Air Minister. and tell the Air Ministry that sympathise deeply with the rela-the R100 when, early In August, tives and friends of those who it flew from London to Montreal R101 flew into a hill.

The airship's last message, have perished in the service of' and back]

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