Staff Sgt. Richard Hubert Victor Wilson RFC

It is interesting to note that the B1113 which runs past the cemetery is called Loraine Way

It is interesting to note that the B1113 which runs past the cemetery is called Loraine Way

Came across this photo of S/Sgt Wilson in the new IWM beta website photo collection.

http://beta.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205192813

Came across this photo of S/Sgt Wilson in the new IWM beta website photo collection.

http://beta.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205192813

Thanks everyone, I knew I was asking in the right place.

I would point out that according to the RAFM document referenced in the Wiki entry the 2 Loraine’s were of no relation.
It does however add that Loraine was a good friend of Trenchard and persuaded him to take flying lessons in the last letter he wrote. The rest, as they say, is history.

John

Clerget did a 7 cylinder, but the Gnome fits the story better.

I think the engine is supposed to be an early Gnome – note the 7 cylinders

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome_Omega

In the CCI book on Nieuports in British service, S/Sgt Wilson is noted as an expert on the Gnome engine – he flew with Capt Loraine on that flight as the latter had reported trouble with his engine on an earlier flight.

The aircraft was a Nieuport IVG which belonged to Capt Loriane’s brother, Robert, and had not yet been allocated an RFC serial as it was still undergoing acceptance trials.

This accident was one of a series which led to the War Office banning the Military Wing of the RFC from flying monoplanes.

Capt Eustace Broke Loraine Grenadier Guards Royal Aero Club Certificate 154 (died soon after arrival at Burford Hospital) and Staff-Serjeant Richard Hubert Victor Wilson (Royal Engineers) Royal Aero Club Certificate 232 (died at scene of broken neck) killed in a Nieuport Monoplane crash Salisbury Plain 5th July 1912

Wilson buried Andover, Loraine at Bramford, Ipswich

also see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustace_Loraine

The engine looks like a Clerget.