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squadron base and, in front of the squadron pilots, put the aircraft through a series of spins, each time recovering safely. After landing, he carefully described to all pilots the correct procedures to recover from a spin. Once the pilots became used to the DH.2's characteristics, confidence in the aircraft rose quickly, as they came to appreciate its manoeuvrability.
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which were dominant over the Western Front in the run up to the Somme offensive in July 1916. Hawker's aggressive personal philosophy of "Attack Everything", was the entire text of his tactical order of 30 June 1916. Spurred by his aggressiveness, 24 Squadron claimed some 70 victories by November at
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pusher. After two fatalities in recent flying accidents, the new fighter, which featured a forward-mounted Lewis machine gun, soon earned a reputation for spinning; its rear mounted rotary engine and sensitive controls made it very responsive. Hawker countered this worry by taking a DH.2 up over the
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Hawker's innovative ideas at this time greatly benefited the fledgling RFC. He helped to invent the Prideaux disintegrating link machine-gun belt feed, and initiated the practice of putting fabric protective coverings on the tips of wooden propellers, the use of fur-lined thigh boots, and devising a
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It has since been argued that shooting down three aircraft in one mission was a feat repeated several times by later pilots, and whether Hawker deserved his Victoria Cross has been questioned. However, in the context of the air war of mid-1915 it was unusual to shoot down even one aircraft, and the
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Hawker flew before Britain had any workable synchroniser gear, so his Bristol Scout had its machine gun mounted on the left side of the cockpit, firing forwards and sideways at a 45 degree angle to avoid the propeller. The only direction from which he could attack an enemy was from its right
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primitive 'rocking fuselage' for target practice on the ground. In 1916 he also developed (with W.L. French) the increased capacity 97-round 'double drum' for the Lewis machine gun. It was issued for trials in July and after modifications was issued generally to the RFC and RNAS.
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Hawker was posted back to England in late 1915, with some seven victory claims (including one captured, three destroyed, one 'out of control' and one 'forced to land'), making him the first British flying ace, and a figure of considerable fame within the ranks of the RFC.
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German Grenadiers reported burying Hawker 250 yards (230 metres) east of Luisenhof Farm along the roadside. Richthofen claimed Hawker's Lewis gun from the wreck as a trophy and hung it above the door of his quarters. Major Lanoe George Hawker is listed on the
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C, serial No. 1611, after his earlier No. 1609 had been written off, transplanting the custom Lewis gun mount onto No. 1611. The first aerial victory for Hawker that day occurred after he had emptied a complete drum of bullets from his aircraft's single
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the cost of 12 of its own planes and 21 pilots killed, wounded or missing. Around this time, Hawker developed a ring gunsight and created a clamp and spring-clip device to hold the Lewis in place on the DH.2. He also designed
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By mid 1916, RFC policy was to ban squadron commanders from operational flying, Hawker included. However, he continued to make frequent offensive patrols and reconnaissance flights, particularly over the Somme battlefields.
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A memorial to Hawker was unveiled in the village of Ligny Thilloy, one km from where he crashed and was buried, on 11 November 2011. It was erected by XXIV Squadron, Royal Air Force, beside the village war memorial.
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was just one of the many which Captain Hawker undertook during almost a year of constant operational flying and fighting. He claimed at least three more victories in August 1915, either in the Scout or an F.E.2.
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3 â€“ which he attacked at a height of about 10,000 feet, burst into flames and crashed. (Pilot Oberleutnant Uebelacker and observer Hauptmann Roser were both killed.) For this feat he was awarded the
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rear quarter â€“ precisely in a direction from which it was easy for the observer to fire at him. Thus, in each of the three attacks, Hawker was directly exposed to the fire of an enemy machine gun.
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as an officer cadet. A clever inventor, Hawker developed a keen interest in all mechanical and engineering developments. During the summer of 1910 he saw a film featuring the
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at low level (below 200 ft) from his B.E.2c. He used a tethered German balloon to help shield him from enemy ground fire as he made successive attacks. During the
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Hawker's original Victoria Cross was lost when the Hawker family belongings were left behind after the fall of France in 1940. On their return after the
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VC was awarded on the basis that all the enemy planes were armed with machine guns. More significantly, by the early summer of 1915, the German
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mount, enabling the machine gun to fire forward obliquely at an acute horizontal angle to the axis of flight, missing the propeller arc.
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that reached to the upper thigh, known as "fug-boots," which became standard issue to combat the risk of frostbite at high altitude.
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and he undertook numerous reconnaissance missions into 1915, being wounded once by ground fire. On 22 April he was awarded the
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distant from where Hawker had his three-victory success nearly a month later. Therefore, the German pilots like Wintgens and
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Hawker VC RFC Ace – The Life of Major Lanoe Hawker, VC, DSO, 1890–1916, Tyrrel Hawker, MC, The Mitre Press, 1965, p. 19
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Promoted to major early in 1916. Hawker was placed in command of the RFC's first (single seater) fighter squadron,
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A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry, vol. II, ed. Ashworth P. Burke, 1895, p. 776–777
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monoplane, with one Eindecker going to each unit, with a fixed, forward-firing machine gun fitted with a "
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into it, sending it spinning down. The second was driven to the ground damaged, and the third â€“ an
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As the year wore on, the Germans introduced far more potent fighters to the front, starting with the
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serial no. 1611, flown by Hawker on 25 July 1915 in his Victoria Cross-earning engagement
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above an airfield with two pilots in the foreground. A copy of the window is in the
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at Upavon on 1 August 1914, three days before Britain entered the First World War.
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He returned to 6 Squadron after hospitalisation. The squadron received several
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Following an initial air victory in June, on 25 July 1915 when on patrol over
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Losing contact with the other DH.2s, Hawker began a lengthy dogfight with an
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at 1300 hours as part of 'A' Flight, led by Captain (later Air Vice Marshal)
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While with No 6 squadron in 1915, Captain Hawker was a comrade of Captain
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Burke's Landed Gentry, 13th edition, ed. A. Winton Thorpe, 1921, p. 565
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with the 33rd Fortress Company. His request for attachment to the
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Victoria Cross: Australia's Finest and the Battles they Fought
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He was killed in a dogfight with the famous German flying ace
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Promoted to 1st Lieutenant in October 1913 he was posted to
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Bowyer, Chaz. "Hawker â€“ Pioneer of air fighting".
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Longparish
Bapaume
British Army
Major
Royal Engineers
Royal Flying Corps
No. 24 Squadron RFC
First World War
Western Front
Victoria Cross
Distinguished Service Order
Mentioned in Despatches
VC
DSO
flying ace
First World War
seven credited victories
Victoria Cross
Commonwealth
Manfred von Richthofen
Boelcke
Longparish
Hampshire
R.N.
74th Highlanders
Mary Elizabeth Hawker ("Lanoe Falconer")
Australia
George Charles Hawker
Edward Hawker

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