By: Geoff K - 11th January 2006 at 19:30
Nothing listed for 218 sqn on this date in ‘The sky their battlefield’.
Geoff.
By: paulmcmillan - 11th January 2006 at 09:01
Lt Roderick John Chisholm (pilot) was killed whilst flying in a DH9 (serial unknown) of 218 Sqn on 14 May 1918. He was flying with Lt Ambrose Godfrey Horneck Lane (pilot) (also 218 Sqn) who died of injuries on 15th May 1918. Both were serving on the western front and are buried at Dunkirk, France.
Source Chris Hobson: ‘Airmen Died in the Great War 1914-1918’
‘killed whilst flying’ implies an accident which may not have been an operational flight (training or air test etc) the fact both are listed as pilots implies to me the latter…
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January 9, 2006 at 11:01 pm