Lieutenant Charles Evered Preece, 2nd Sqn.

[PyroraptorOlympius1945]

Lieutenant Charles Evered Preece initiallty served as a trumpeter with the 1/1st Worcestershire Yeomanry before the outbreak of the Great War, and subsequently served as a private with the unit during its time in Egypt (under IX Corps). After being deemed unfit for service, Charles joined the RFC as a Second Lieutenant and was again promoted to First Lieutenant in 1917; he was stationed at RAF Monkmoor in Shrewsbury after the war but unfortunately died in a flying accident in February 1919 aboard a de Havilland 9a.

Photographs of Lieutenant Preece would be greatly appreciated!

[Ron da Valli]

Here's one I saw on Findagrave. Photo courtesy of Julian Tansell.

 

[travers61]

If you are near Worcestershire Archives you're in luck.

 

A photograph of Lieutenant C.E. Preece of Hanley Castle can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 1st March 1919, available at Worcestershire Archives.

https://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/casualty/preece-charles-evered-3/

 

[Ron da Valli]

Here is a newspaper report of his death.

Flying Accident at Shrewsbury,|1919-02-21|Llangollen Advertiser Denbighshire Merionethshire and North Wales Journal - Welsh Newspapers (library.wales)

[Matlock1418]

MIC is pretty full = Worcestershire Yeomanry1836, 42355, Royal Flying Corps [RFC], Observers' School of Reconnaissance Aerial Photography,

Casualty card at the RAF Museum StoryVault - engine failure leding to a stall, side-slip and spin with consequentilal crash and fire https://www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk/archive/preece-c.e.-charles-evered 

CWGC https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/364219/charles-evered-preece 

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