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Robert Holme (aviator)

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On 1 August 1919 Holme resigned his commission in the Somerset Light Infantry, having been granted a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force with the rank of captain.
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Holme was the only son of Robert Francis Lyon Holme, and the grandson of Charles Trask, of
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single-seat fighter. He gained his first aerial victory on 2 July, destroying a
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He was promoted to lieutenant on 1 June 1916, and on 1 July was appointed a
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On 4 October 1922 now Flight Lieutenant Holme, while serving in
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Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in Iraq
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regiment on 11 November 1914. Holme was seconded to the
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in which he was travelling as a passenger crashed at
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On 14 July he destroyed an 247:In 1918 Holme was serving in 425:(349): 649. 3 September 1915 630:Royal Flying Corps officers 375:(722): 629. 26 October 1922 334:"Robert Charles Lyon Holme" 671: 177:Robert Charles Lyon Holme 22:Robert Charles Lyon Holme 527:(448): 756. 26 July 1917 415:"Aviators' Certificates" 582:Barrass, M. B. 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South London
England
Kirkuk
Iraq
Baghdad
Flight lieutenant
Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry)
No. 29 Squadron RAF
No. 1 Squadron RAF
World War I
Western Front
Military Cross
MC
World War I
flying ace
Norton-sub-Hamdon
Somerset
passing out
Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry)
Royal Flying Corps
Le Crotoy
flight commander
Military Cross
No. 29 Squadron
S.E.5a
Fokker D.VII
Merris
observation balloon
Merville

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