Victoria, B.C.
Listed as Canadian Corps of Cyclists in the Book of Remembrance. *S.L.*
1917-01-04:Fatt was killed in the process of delivering the BE12 from Coventry to France when a strut broke and interfered with the controls. His aircraft went into an un-recoverable, spinning dive.
Fatt, William Maberly (Lieutenant)
Killed in Flying Accident 1917-January-04
Birth Date: 1890-December-05
Born: Exeter, Ontario
Parents: Frederick Helling Fatt & Sarah Ellen Sutton
Spouse: Marjorie Hannah Sale
Home: Victoria, B.C.
Enlistment: Victoria, British Columbia
Enlistment Date: 1915-December-15
Service
RFC
Unit
(Ferry) FPP- Ferry Pilots Pool (RFC)
Base
Rank
Lieutenant
Position
pilot
Service Numbers
Canadian Virtual War MemorialCrew or Other Personnel
B.E.12 A572
B.E.12 serial: A572
Photo of prototype B.E.12 in RFC service markings taken in 1915/16.
Unknown, probably either a service member of the RFC or an employee of the Royal Aircraft Factory. - Published in : Cheesman, E.F. Fighter Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War, Harleyford, 1960 - and several times before and since that date.
Unknown, probably either a service member of the RFC or an employee of the Royal Aircraft Factory. - Published in : Cheesman, E.F. Fighter Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War, Harleyford, 1960 - and several times before and since that date.
The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.12 was a British single-seat aeroplane of The First World War designed at the Royal Aircraft Factory. It was essentially a single-seat version of the B.E.2.
Intended for use as a long-range reconnaissance and bombing aircraft, the B.E.12 was pressed into service as a fighter, in which role it proved disastrously inadequate, mainly due to its very poor manoeuvrability. Wikipedia
Wikipedia Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.12
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