Thomas Farrar 'Tom' Scott Military Medal, Rank: Second-Lieutenant Status: Killed in Flying Accident 1918-05-21

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Scott, Thomas Farrar 'Tom' Military Medal (Second-Lieutenant)

Killed in Flying Accident 1918-May-21

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Birth Date: unkown date (age 24)

Born: Prescott, Leeds, Ontario

William Lemuel Scott & Beatrice Louisa Thompson

Alice Helen Colchester Barker

Home: Vancouver, B.C. (parents)

Enlistment Date: 1914-11-14

Decorations: Military Medal,

Service
RAF

Unit
75 HDS Harling Road England (F) Sqn- Squadron (RFC)

Rank

Second-Lieutenant

Marshal
Air Chief Marshal	A/C/M
Air Marshal	A/M
Air Vice Marshal	A/V/M
Air Commodore	A/C
Group Captain	G/C
Wing Commander	W/C
Squadron Leader	S/L
Flight Lieutenant	F/L
Flying Officer	F/O
Pilot Officer	P/O
Warrant Officer 1st Class	WO1
Warrant Officer 2nd Class	WO2
Flight Sergeant	FS
Sergeant	SGT
Corporal	CPL
Senior Aircraftman	SAC
Leading Aircraftman	LAC
Aircraftman 1st Class	AC1
Aircraftman 2nd Class	AC2

Position
Pilot

Service Numbers
2107

Scott enlisted in 1914 and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps from the CEF in late 1917. He was completing his training on 1918-05-21, when he died in a solo training flight accident. Taking off in a BE12 aircraft he stalled because his flying speed was too low and then spun into the ground and burst into flames at Elmswell. He died in the crash.

Home

Vancouver, B.C. (parents)

Burial
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East Harling Cemetery
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B.E.12 B727

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Second-Lieutenant Scott, Thomas Farrar 'Tom' (RAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1918-May-21
East Harling Cemetery, East Harling, Norfolk, UK

Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.12

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.

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

Wkikpedia Wikipedia Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.12

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Scott, Thomas Farrar 'Tom' Military Medal (Second-Lieutenant)

Killed in Flying Accident 1918-May-21

B.E.12 B727

Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.12

B.E.12 B727

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