Kelly, William Joseph

Killed in Flying Accident 1918-09-26

Birth Date: unkown date

Born: Barracks, County Tipperary, Ireland

Mrs. Margaret Mcmahon Kelly & the late Michael Kelly

Home: Brantford, Ontario.

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RAF

Unit

(OT) (RNAS)

Base

1 School of Navigation & Bomb Dropping, Stonehenge

Rank

Second-Lieutenant

Position

Second-Lieutenant

Service Numbers

507627, RAF

1918-09-26: FE2b B-1856, 1 School of Navigation & Bomb-dropping, Stonehenge; Pilot hit on head by propeller while trying to put out a ground fire at Harlestone, Northants. Lt William Joseph Kelly (21) killed (pilot) (Canadian), 2Lt Arthur Craig Taylor unhurt (gunner) (Canadian).

Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2

(RAF Photo)(Source Harold A Skaarup web page)
Royal Aircraft Factory (Farman Experimental) F.E.2b, "Gold Coast No. 10".
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Between 1911 and 1914, the Royal Aircraft Factory used the F.E.2 (Farman Experimental 2) designation for three quite different aircraft that shared only a common "Farman" pusher biplane layout.

The third "F.E.2" type was operated as a day and night bomber and fighter by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Along with the single-seat D.H.2 pusher biplane and the Nieuport 11, the F.E.2 was instrumental in ending the Fokker Scourge that had seen the German Air Service establish a measure of air superiority on the Western Front from the late summer of 1915 to the following spring.Harold Skaarup web page

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