Lt Henry DeBathe RAF

[Guest stevebec]

I was wondering if any of you blokes know how this officer met his end?

He enlisted in the AIF in Brisbane Australia 26th December 1914 embarking with the 3rd Reinforcment to the 5th ALHR.

He may have been on Gallipoli but he did transfer to the British Army and granted an commision in the 9th Bn Sherwood Foresters 23rd October 1915.

He is shown in the CWGC as having died with the 56th Air Trg Station RAF 4th November 1918.

Was it a training accident or sickness?

Also his name is not mentiond in "Soldiers died in the Great War" CD I have.

Can anyone fill in some of these gaps?

Thanks

S.B

[Terry Denham]

Lt Henry Michael De Bathe

56 Training Depot Station, RAF

Died 04.11.18 when his Avro 504 (serial D8916) crashed Age 29

Formerly served with 5th Australian Light Horse & Sherwood Foresters.

CWGC headstone in St Andrew's Churchyard, West Stoke, West Sussex, UK

Personal Inscription: In Loving Memory. Death is Swallowed up in Victory

SDGW does not have RAF casualties.

I have visited this grave myself and there is another De Bathe flyer buried nearby. Pilot Officer Sir Christopher Albert De Bathe 6th Bt. RAFVR Died 03.06.41

[Guest stevebec]

Thanks mate

S.B

[Dolphin]

"Airmen Died in the Great War" by Chris Hobson has a little extra information: Lt de Bathe was a native of Westminster, London, and was aged 29 when he died.