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- Q5077242 description "Royal Air Force air marshals".
- Q5077242 description "Royal Air Force air marshals".
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- Q5077242 abstract "For the British Army officer who wrote under the pseudonym Charles Edmonds, see Charles Carrington (British Army officer)Air Vice-Marshal Charles Humphrey Kingsman Edmonds CBE DSO RAF (20 April 1891 – 26 September 1954) was a decorated British naval aviator during World War I and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during World War II.The son of Charles Edmonds of Stamford, Lincolnshire, and Mary Elizabeth ("Ella") Harris of Liverpool, Charles joined the Royal Navy in 1903, serving in the Balkan War of 1911-12. He then attended the Military Pilot's Course at the Central Flying School, in the year of its establishment at Wiltshire in 1912. By 1913, he was a member of staff at the Calshot Naval Air Station, and in 1914 pilot of HMS Riviera. One of the earliest pilots in the RNAS, he was one of the pilots selected to take part in the Cuxhaven Raid on Christmas Day 1914, flying Short Admiralty Type 74 (No 811), for which he received his DSO.Edmonds was a Flight Commander of the seaplane carrier HMS Ben-my-Chree during the Gallipoli Campaign. On 12 August 1915, flying a Short 184 seaplane, he made history by launching the first ever aerial torpedo attack on a Turkish merchant ship. It subsequently sank, although it had already been hit by the British submarine HMS E14. Five days later, he successfully attacked another Turkish ship, the first to have been sunk entirely by this method. Flying Short Type 184 No 849 on 11 February 1916, he suffered engine failure and on landing on a heavy sea, the aircraft capsized. Edmonds and his observer (Irish nationalist Lt R Erskine Childers, the author of "The Riddle of the Sands") were rescued by HMT Charlsen.He served aboard [HMS Raven II]] and HMS Otranto before being awarded a permanent commission as Major on 1 Aug 1919. In that same year, he was awarded an OBE.On 22 Jan 1920 he was removed from the Navy Lists on being awarded Permanent Commission in the RAF. Her served in a number of senior roles between the wars and through World War II, being awarded a CBE on 1 Jan 1943.He won a number of prizes in various essay competitions between 1919 and 1931, and sometime before 1922 published Aerial Cooperation with the Navy, republished in paperback in 2015.He married Lorna Karim Chadwick Osborn in 1917; they had 3 children. He retired on 3 Oct 1945 and died on 26 Sep 1954.".
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- Q5077242 birthDate "1891-04-20".
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- Q5077242 deathDate "1954-09-26".
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- Q5077242 battles "Cuxhaven Raid".
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- Q5077242 dateOfBirth "1891-04-20".
- Q5077242 dateOfDeath "1954-09-26".
- Q5077242 name "Charles Humphrey Kingsman Edmonds".
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- Q5077242 comment "For the British Army officer who wrote under the pseudonym Charles Edmonds, see Charles Carrington (British Army officer)Air Vice-Marshal Charles Humphrey Kingsman Edmonds CBE DSO RAF (20 April 1891 – 26 September 1954) was a decorated British naval aviator during World War I and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during World War II.The son of Charles Edmonds of Stamford, Lincolnshire, and Mary Elizabeth ("Ella") Harris of Liverpool, Charles joined the Royal Navy in 1903, serving in the Balkan War of 1911-12. ".
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- Q5077242 givenName "Charles Humphrey Kingsman".
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