Remembered today on the GWF - Lieut Roger DOUGLAS, MC, DCM

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Remembered Today (13/11/2019) on the GWF:

Lieutenant Roger DOUGLAS M C, D C M Australian Flying Corps who died 13/11/1919 BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY United Kingdom

Bio: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/douglas-roger-dodger-6004

Also his navigator, Lieut James Stuart Leslie ROSS (AFC)

Portrait: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1214332

 

Remembered one hundred years after their deaths - their plane having crashed only a short distance from take-off, as they attempted to fly home to Australia as entrants in the England to Australia Air Race...

https://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/lifestyle/history/farewell-roger-the-dodger/news-story/878c3d5df984469d6b31161882c3e892

 

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Thanks Frev.

 

We (Admins)  truly didn't know that when his name was randomly selected for RT.

 

Glen