Kearney, Philip Eugene (2nd-Lieutenant)

Killed in Flying Accident 1919-January-07

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Birth Date: 1890-October-23

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Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAF

Unit

(OT) AFS- Advanced Flying School (RFC)

Base

No.1 School of Navigation & Bomb Dropping, Stonehenge, England

Rank

2nd-Lieutenant

Position

pilot

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1918-03-21: to be 2nd-Lieutenant, RFC. 1919-01-07: Kearney died in DH-9, D-471; when shortly after leaving the ground he was seen to get into difficulties after a flat turn at low altitude, and spin into ground, near Stonehenge. His gunner-observer, Sergeant Richard Ross Harper died of his injuries later that day.