AUSTRALIAN FLYING CORPS ROLL OF HONOUR BY UNIT
The Rolls are listed in chronological order of the date of death. The AFC Unit Rolls show all casualties from those Units; the RFC, RAF and RNAS Unit Rolls show only the names of those from Australia.
The names of soldiers serving in the Australian Army are shown in blue for those who died while serving in Australian Flying Corps (AFC) Squadrons or Units, and those whose names are shown in red died while serving with Royal Flying Corps (RFC) or RAF (Royal Air Force from 1 April 1918 onwards) Squadrons or Units, or Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) Units. The names of soldiers from Australian serving in British Forces are shown in black.
Mesopotamia Half Flight (No. 30 Squadron RFC) Mesopotamia (Iraq)
Australian War Memorial Mesopotamia Half Flight History (External Site)
Commanding Officer: Major Henry Alloysius Petrie DSO MC MID (Discharged 31 January 1918)
The Australian Half Flight comprised four pilots – Major Petrie, Captain White and Lieutenants Treloar and Merz – and the nine aircraft mechanics listed on the Roll.
Arrived at Basra, Iraq: 26 May 1915
BURN William Wallace Allison MID NZ Army
MERZ George Pinnock MID
TRELOAR William Harold PoW: 16Sep15
WHITE Thomas Walter DFC MID VD PoW: 13Nov15
1916
SLOSS James McKenzie MSM 11 PoW: 29Apr16
HUDSON Keith Liston 12 PoW: 29Apr16
SOLEY Thomas Montague Newey 10 PoW: 29Apr16
LORD William Henry 23 PoW: 29Apr16
WILLIAMS Leo Thomas 16 PoW: 29Apr16
ADAMS Francis Luke 44 PoW: 29Apr16
MUNRO James 47 PoW: 29Apr16
RAYMENT William Charles 49 PoW: 29Apr16
Half Flight Disbanded: 29 April 1916 (Surrender of British and Indian Forces at Kut-el-Amara)
1917
CURRAN David 45 PoW: 29Apr16
No. 1 Squadron (No. 67 Squadron RFC) Eastern Front
Australian War Memorial No. 1 Squadron AFC History (External Link)
Raised: Point Cook VIC: 6 January 1916
Suez, Egypt: 14 April 1916
Palestine
1916
MERRETT Charles Darrell
WOODROW Sydney
1917
ADAMS Athol Gladwyn
HEATHCOTE Leonard Walter MBE PoW: 9Mar17
HYAM William Raymond
STEELE Norman Leslie
MORGAN Joseph Anthony RFC
STONES Gerald Cunliffe
BRASELL Jack Stanley
BROOKS Charles Alfred RFC
VAUTIN Claude Henry PoW: 8Jul17
PAGET Gerald Lewis RFC
SEARLE Archibald Henry
WRIGHT Frederick Charles 473
BOWD Henry William
RUSSON Bertie George 317
HARVEY Frederick
GENT Clarence Linzee 142
MATHESON Harry Mackay RFC
1918
PARKINSON Vincent John PoW: 4Jan18
POTTS Jack Diamond Sumner
FELSTEAD Theo
HANCOCK Frederick PoW: 17Jan18
POOLE Alfred Anderson MBE PoW: 17Jan18
AUSTIN Ronald Albert MC PoW: 14Mar18
LEE Oliver Matthew MC MID PoW: 14Mar18
CHALLINOR Ronald Tynsdale PoW: 1May18
HAIG Frederick William PoW: 1May18
McELLIGOTT Joseph MID PoW: 1 May 18
RUTHERFORD Douglas Wallace PoW: 1May18
CURWEN-WALKER Jack Keith
JENSEN Neils Peter Berg 506
FELL William Hewitt 607
FARQUHAR Arthur Wallace Kemmis
OXENHAM Gordon Vincent
SMITH Lawrence Henry DFM PoW: 27Jun18
VYNER Charles James PoW: 9Aug18
KREIG Louis Paul
STOOKE Ernest Cecil DCM
LETCH Harold Alexander MC
WALKER John Mercer
CLIMIE Leslie Strathdee PoW: 19Sep18 Freed
MULFORD Edwin Alfred DCM PoW: 19Sep18 Freed
DOWLING Dudley Russell PoW: 19Sep18 Freed
TONKIN Albert Victor DFC PoW: 19Sep18 Freed
MARTIN Alfred
CAMERON Colin Campbell
1919
PAUL Carrick Stewart DFC MID
DOWNE Cyril Lester Gordon MID
THOMPSON Alexander Charles 135
MOORE Frederick Percival 446
1920
1921
Disbanded: Kantara, Egypt: 5 March 1919
Re-raised as a RAAF Squadron at RAAF Station Point Cook VIC, 1 January 1922
No. 2 Squadron (No. 68 Squadron RFC) Western Front
Australian War Memorial No. 2 Squadron AFC History (External Link)
Raised: Kantara, Egypt: 15 September 1916
Harlaxton, Lincolnshire: January 1917
1917
HAYLES Albert Ernest 765
MUIR Stanley Keith MC RFC
St Omer, France: September 1917
AGNEW Ivo Cumberland Frazer PoW 2Oct17
PILKINGTON Stanley Howard
MORRISON Douglas George
CLARK David Goodlet
GRIGGS Albert
AYERS Sydney Winston
CORNELL Harold Gordon
WARD Leslie Norman PoW: 20Nov17
BELL John
1918
LAWSON Percy Harold
HOWARD Richard Watson MC PoW
RACKETT Archie Roye PoW: 21Mar18
FLIGHT Oscar Thomas PoW: 23Mar18
HOSKING Thomas
PRIMROSE Leslie John
HAMMOND Themetre James
FRASER Murdo RAF
EBELING Claude Roy
COX George PoW: 21Sep18
CORNISH Edmond Warhurst MC & Bar PoW: 14Oct18
McKEOWN John Alexander Hunter
HOWARD Francis
SMITH Francis Ryan MC DFC PoW: 8Nov18
MILLS Frederic Charles Markham
1919
BULAND Henry Louis 353
TAYLOR George Lonsdale 3834
COWAN Gerald Henderson
Disbanded: Serny, France: 19 February 1919
Re-raised as a RAAF Unit at RAAF Station Laverton VIC: 1 May 1937
No. 3 Squadron (No. 69 Squadron RFC) Western Front
Australian War Memorial No. 3 Squadron AFC History (External Link)
Raised: Point Cook VIC: 19 September 1916
South Carlton, Lincolnshire: December 1916
1917
HANSEL George Edmund 608
WARREN Harry Collier 1899
WELLS Arthur 648
KITSON Harold Strachan
BARTLE Thomas William
TROUT Roy Cumestree
SHAPIRA Francis Cunningham
SLOANE William Douglas 694
Savy, France: 24 August 1917
SCOTT William Norman Eric
STORRER Henry Haigh
BUCKNALL Guy 527
HUGHES Henry Francis 559
SANDY James Lionel Montague
1918
BLAIR John Riggall
DONAHAY Clarence
STREETER Henry
TARRANT Francis Joseph
DEWHIRST Edward Bertram 723
SELL Leslie Simeon John
BEST George William
LEWIS Owen Gower
BUCKLAND William Alexander John
RALFE Henry Douglas Eyre
TAYLOR Albert Lawrence Deane
JONES Sydney
LORAM Stanley Arthur
BROOK Arthur O’Connor
BICE Edward John MC
CHAPMAN John Ernest
MACHIN Roland Frank Charles
JEFFERS John Patrick
PEEL John Clifford
GOULD-TAYLOR John DFC
THOMSON Bruce Garie
WALKER Albert John 528
CONNINGTON Alexander William 615
NEWTON Stanley Herbert 1778
MAHER Edward Joseph 1477
FEILD Gustav William 787
HURST John Edward 1463
PICKERING George
1919
1920
SMITH Vincent MSM 684
DALZELL Abner Gilchrist MSM 666
Disbanded: St Omer, France: 21 February 1919
Re-raised as a RAAF Unit at Point Cook VIC: 1 July 1925
No. 4 Squadron (No. 71 Squadron RFC) Western Front
Australian War Memorial No. 4 Squadron AFC History (External Link)
Raised: Point Cook VIC: 25 October 1916
Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire: 27 March 1917
1917
RYDER Clifford Newton 941
WILLIAMSON John Alexander RFC
GEARY Adam 1064
WAKELY Argent William Clissold 1046
FLETCHER Leslie Morley RFC
LARKIN Sidney Bernard 970
FREADMAN Zavel Ephraim
BILLINGS David Kitto RFC
TREADWELL Edward Jabez Cooper 959
FERRERIA Raymond Augustus 1137
GAMBLE Harold Edmund 906
HANSMAN Edgar Emanuel 883
Bruay, France: 22 December 1917
1918
ANDERSON Albert Mendelssohn
CASH James Norman
CURTIS Richard Haddon
NELSON Eric Benjamin
MARTIN Charles Henry
COUSTON Alexander MID PoW: 21Feb18
RANDELL Wentworth Beavis PoW: 25Feb18
COURTNEY John Classon
LOVE Howard Kingsley PoW: 10Apr18
WOOLHOUSE Fred Smith
STORCH Louis Albert
WRIGHT Benjamin William RAF
BARRY Owen Cressy
FINNIE Alexander
NOWLAND George
PEIRCE George Felix RAF (Canadian)
MARTIN William Stanley
BROWNE John Sandfield McDonald RAF (Canadian)
McCLEERY Edgar Percy Everard
KEAY Seawood Peter
CARTER Duncan Campbell
EDDIE Maxwell Hardwicke
LOCKLEY Alexander Hamilton
TAPLIN Leonard Thomas Eaton DFC PoW: 5Sep18
BUTTERWORTH Frank Alexander MM
SIMS Percy James
BAKER Thomas Charles Richmond DFC MM
PALLISER Arthur John
SYMONS Parker Whitley
GOODSON Edward John PoW: 4Nov18
RHODES Charles William PoW: 4Nov18
SWANN Lyell Keith MM
Bickendorf, Germany: 12 December 1918 (Army of Occupation)
1919
THORBURN William Henry 3485
SHILCOCK William Charles 769
REID William John 1039
RICHARDSON Ivan Morton Rupert 935
1920
1928
HEEMEME Henri Civilian
Disbanded: Salisbury, Wiltshire: March 1919
Re-raised as a RAAF Squadron at RAAF Station Richmond NSW: 1 May 1937
No. 5 (Training) Squadron
(No. 29 (Australian) Squadron RFC)
Australian War Memorial No. 5 (Training) Squadron AFC History (External Site)
Raised at Shawbury, Shropshire: 1 September 1917
Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire
1918
SHERAR Roderick Oliver
TURNER Frederick Charles
PERRY Gilbert Douglas
BARTLEY Robert Victor
CUMMINGS Roy Lytton
SCOTT Charles William
ALLEN Geoffrey Dunster
COOPER Arthur Weston 2983
1919
FREDERICK Charles Clarence 2696
WEINGARTH Jack Henry
FILMER Edgar Thomas 3148
Disbanded at Minchinhampton: March 1919
No. 6 (Training) Squadron
(No. 30 (Australian) Squadron RFC)
Australian War Memorial No. 6 (Training) Squadron AFC History History (External Site)
Raised at Yatesbury, Wiltshire: 1 September 1917
Tern Hill, Shropshire;
Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire
1918
FORSYTH Reginald James Thomas
GRANT Eric Duncan
SHEPHERD Oscar Dudley
LEWIS Cecil Charles
JEFFERYS Ernest Howard 747
1919
STEVENS Frederick George 2263
KEEN Thomas Llewellyn MC 210
Disbanded at Minchinhampton: March 1919
No. 7 (Training) Squadron
(No. 32 (Australian) Squadron RFC)
Australian War Memorial No. 7 (Training) Squadron AFC History (External Site)
Raised at Leighterton, Gloucestershire: 24 October 1917
1918
NEEDHAM George Francis Jack 27571
THOMPSON George Robert
STRONACH Keith William 1946
HAWKE Stanley
PILLOW Roy Nelson 14061
PARKES William
WICKS George Viner
BERG Carl Oscar 3297
1919
McGUFFIE Roy Nelson Victor 3261
Disbanded at Leighterton: March 1919
No. 8 (Training) Squadron
(No. 33 (Australian) Squadron RFC)
Australian War Memorial No. 8 (Training) Squadron AFC History (External Site)
Raised at Leighterton, Gloucestershire: 24 October 1917
1918
CLUTTERBUCK Thomas 1342
BANKS-SMITH Sydney Harold 2884
DUNN Robert Alexander
FERGUSON Douglas Abbott
TAYLOR Harry MC MM
FRY Sydney Charles
WATTS Cecil Thomas 31928
WALSH Patrick George
1920
Disbanded at Leighterton: December 1919
AFC Training Depot
Depot Postings and Attachments to RFC/RAF Units
1917
ALLEN Thomas Meredith 1313
HERD Rupert Holton
IRWIN Frederick Stanley Anderson 1907
HERFORD Walter Harrel 1397
MOTT Arthur Ernest Percival
1918
MORGAN Albert 1130
DEALY Thomas Sydney Ough
JOHNSTON George Robinson 2704
BURTON Ernest Wilfred
MARSDEN Stanley Noel 2628
HAY Charles William
GRIGSON Sydney Mark 19826
CARR Henry George
GEORGE Leslie
LORD John Stone William
BUTLER Howard Richmond Henry
CUBBINS Lindsay Gordon 2494
GROVE Raymond Hinton
NICOL Hector
NELSON Harry 3405
KING George Croft Denman 110
FREEMAN Alfred Livingstone 2249
KITTO Francis 1404
MOSS George David 3781
AUSTIN Norman Roy 3784
1919
FITZPATRICK Noel
DAVIS Francis Gordon 3310
FRASER George Henry 2025
1920
FIRTH Leslie William 7354
1921
HART Richard John 1752
The soldiers whose names are shown in red were serving in the Australian Army.
No. 1 Squadron
Bailleul, France: 1917
FULLER Charles Stephen MC RFC
Clairmarais South, France: 1918
HENDERSON Kenneth Selby RAF
No. 2 Squadron
Hesdigneul, France: 1917
REEVE Charles Frederick RFC
No. 4 Squadron
St Omer, France: 1915
RALEIGH George Hebden RFC
No. 7 Squadron
Warloy Baillon, France: 1916
FRASER William RFC
MacNEILL Donald Augustus RFC
Proven East, France: 1917
TIDDY Hector Kingsley Portus RFC
Staseghem, Belgium: 1918
ROYLE Raynes Lord Charles RAF
No. 8 Squadron
Vert Galand. France: 1918
WILKINSON Charles Bliss RFC
No. 9 Squadron
Proven, Belgium: 1917
PHILIP Edgar Thomas RFC
No. 11 Squadron
lzel-le–Hameau, France: 1916
TURK Herbert Henry MC RFC
No. 13 Squadron
Vert Galant, France: 1915
PORTER Gavin Alexander RFC
No. 15 Squadron
Vert Galant, France: 1916
CUNINGHAM James Campbell RFC
Lealvilliers, France: 1916
FOCKEN Leslie Charles RFC
No. 17 Squadron
Mikra Bay, Greece: 1917
RENNIE Edward Clement RAF
No. 21 Squadron
La Lovie, France: 1917
GEE Geoffrey Richard Dudley RFC
YOUDALE Alfred Clarence MC & Bar (Twice) RFC
No. 22 Squadron
Izel-le-Hameau, France: 1917
FOREMAN Granado Walter RFC
HOLMES Kenneth Woodfull
Boisdinghem, France: 1917
EDSON Charles Robert
RANDELL Cosma Lake 47302 RFC
Maisoncelle, France: 1918
DOWLING Brian Laidley MID RAF
No. 23 Squadron
Baizieux, France: 1918
JOYCE Norman Roy RAF
No. 24 Squadron
Baizieux, France: 1917
PEACOCK Alfred Walter RFC
No. 25 Squadron
Auchel, France: 1917
RICHARDSON Lancelot Lytton MC RFC
Boisdinghem, France: 1917
CRAGG Sydney Bolton RFC
Ruisseauville, France: 1918
LASKER Robert Sydney RAF
No. 27 Squadron
Clairmarais, France: 1917
LUKIS Leofwin Collings Fellowes RFC
Ruisseauville, France: 1918
PALFREYMAN Audubon Eric RAF
No. 29 Squadron
Poperinghe, France: 1917
PALMER Percy Eric RFC
SHEPHERD Alfred Seymour DSO MC MID RFC PoW
No. 32 Squadron
Treizennes, France: 1916
GODLEE John RFC
No. 33 Squadron
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire: 1917
SOLOMON Hubert Philip RFC
No. 36 Squadron
Seaton Carew, County Durham: 1917
THORNTON Harold James RFC
No. 37 Squadron
Woodham Mortimer, Essex: 1917
MOURITZEN Roy Walter RFC
No. 40 Squadron
Treizennes, France: 1917
HAY John RFC
Bryas, France: 1917
NUTTER Alan Charles RFC
1918
DALLAS Roderick Stanley DSO DSC & Bar RAF
No. 43 Squadron
Auchel, France: 1917
MEUDELL Colin Grant RFC
1918: Avesnes-le-Comte, France
HUDSON Frederick Derek RAF PoW
No. 45 Squadron
Ste. Marie Cappel, France: 1917
HEWSON Thomas
ROSS Claude Murray RFC
1919
HOWELL Cedric Ernest DSO MC DFC RAF
No. 46 Squadron
La Gorgue, France: 1917
TONKS Henry Alfred Charles
KAY George Pollard RFC
Cappy, France: 1918
O’HARA WOOD Arthur Holroyd RAF
No. 47 Squadron
Helwan, Egypt: 1921
ALGAR Albert Charles 330039 RFC
No. 48 Squadron
Leffrinckoucke, France: 1917
TALBOT Arthur Sydney RFC
CAMPBELL Charles Bruce RFC
Ste. Marie Cappel, France: 1918
COWAN James Basil RAF
No. 49 Squadron
Conteville, France: 1918
CUTTLE George Robin MC RAF
No. 52 Squadron
Longavesnes, France: 1917
CARTER Seton Rodney RFC
Bonneuil-en-Valois, France: 1918
DEMPSTER Ian Mackay RFC
No. 53 Squadron
Bailleul, France: 1917
KEBBLEWHITE Fred Edgar RFC
No. 55 Squadron
Boisdinghem, France: 1917
SLEEMAN William Fraser RFC
MacKINTOSH Douglas Fraser RFC (aka George MATHEWS)
No. 56 Squadron
Estree Blanche, France: 1917
GILBERT John Driffield RFC
No. 57 Squadron
Boisdinghem, France: 1917
BRAMLEY Samuel Leslie RFC
No. 60 Squadron
Filescamp, France: 1917
LANGWILL Trevor RFC
No. 70 Squadron
Fienvillers, France: 1916
ALLPORT Morton RFC
No. 72 Squadron
Basra, Iraq: 2 March 1918
CANNELL Hugh Featherstone Campbell RAF
No. 77 Squadron
Edinburgh, Scotland: 1917
HUGHES Eric RFC
No. 79 Squadron
Champien, France: 1918
TANNER Percy Valentine RFC
No. 84 Squadron
Liettres, France: 1917
POWELL Edward Watson RFC
No. 91 Squadron
Chattis Hill, Hampshire: 1918
MacDONALD Lachlan John RFC
No. 113 Squadron
Weli Shiek Nuran, Egypt: 1917
BOOR Alaric Pinder RFC
No. 203 Squadron
Filescamp, France: 1918
LITTLE Robert Alexander DSO & Bar DSC & Bar RAF
No. 12 Balloon Company
France: 1918
BAUER David Claud DFC RAF
No. 1 Aircraft Depot
Belgium: 1917
LAUCHLAND Robert 1200
1918
FEAR Ernest John 83321 RAF
RICH Malverne Brentnall 1285
1919
TOOLE John Henry 1650
No. 2 Aircraft Depot
France: 1917
CLIFTON George Leake Cecil RFC
2nd Reserve Squadron
Northolt, London: 1917
POWELL Thomas Henry Norman RFC
7th Reserve Squadron
Parkhouse Military Camp, Hampshire: 1916
WHITEMAN Harold Ernest RFC
13th Reserve Squadron
Dover, Kent: 1916
WILSON-WALKER Alan Alexander RFC
15th Reserve Squadron
Doncaster, Yorkshire: 1917
CALDWELL Anthony Steel RFC
57th Reserve Squadron
Abu Sueir, Egypt: 1918
GIOVANETTI Albert Harcourt RFC
58th Reserve Squadron
Suez, Egypt: 1917
FRANKLIN Rodney Vernon RFC
59th Reserve Squadron
Gosport, Hampshire: 1917
BURNS Alexander RFC
6th Training Squadron
Catterick, Yorkshire: 1917
BROWNING Oakley Alsop RFC
63rd Training Squadron
Joyce Green, Kent: 1917
SALMON Wilfred Graham RFC
1918
JAMES Bert RFC
THOMPSON Claude Robert James RAF
No. 7 Training School
Netheravon, Wiltshire: 1917
WALL Arthur Geoffrey Nelson RFC
Central Flying School
Pewsey, Wiltshire: 1917
SUTHERLAND Alan Darcy RFC
No. 1 Observer School of Aerial Gunnery
New Romney, Kent: 1918
SCARR Geoffrey Campbell RAF
Airship Training Wing
Cranwell, Lincolnshire: 1919
THURSTON Denzil Robert AFC RAF
No. 5 Training Depot Station
Stamford, Lincolnshire: 1918
BLACK Donald Curdie RAF
No. 30 Training Depot Station
Northolt, London: 1919
HANCOCK John Mervyn RAF
No. 32 Training Depot Station
Montrose, Scotland: 1918
PERCIVAL Harold Kingsley 137709 RAF
No. 42 Training Depot Station
Hounslow, London: 1918
FFRENCH Evelyn Wilson RAF
No. 44 Training Depot Station
Oxford, Oxfordshire: 1918
WESTMORELAND Edwin Herbert RAF
No. 56 Training Depot Station
Cranwell, Lincolnshire: 1918
DE BATHE Henry Michael RAF
Cadet Distribution Depot
1918
CLEMENTS Wallace Alexander Prince 183855 RAF
8th Cadet Wing
1918
FORREST-DUNLOP John James 181870 RAF
Repatriation Camp, Blandford
Blandford, Dorset: 1919
RICHARDSON Ian Dacre RAF
North East Area
1918
HAMMOND Roland William 161613 RAF
No. 10 Motor Transport Repair Depot
ASHLEY Dora 17663 WRAF
Unit Unavailable
1918
DUNSTAN John Leonard RAF
1919
ASHTON Cecil George RAF
WIGRAM Arthur Dunbar RAF
ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE
1914
ASH Basil Drummond RNAS
1916
FRASER Percival Victor RNAS
MANN Alfred Thomas Osborne RNAS
1917
MOIR Charles Jarvis RNAS