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Boswell, Henry George

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Title Flight Sub-Lieutenant (RNAS)
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Birth 07/01/1892 Death (nk)
Place Coburg Place (nk)
Area ON Area (nk)
Country Canada Country (nk)
 
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Biography
He was living in Toronto ON at the time of his recruitment into the navy. He was awarded ACA Certificate 514 at the Curtiss Flying School, Newport News VA 28/06 1916.
 
Military Service
He went overseas with Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry early in the First World War but was invalided home with rheumatism in October 1915. (Transferred to RNAS) He was appointed as a Probationary Flight Sub-Lieutenant (Temp.) RNAS 1915 (With seniority dated 27/06/1916) in Ottawa ON. He sailed to the UK on the Sicilian 15 07/1916. In 1916 he served in RNAS Windermere for flying training. He served in RNAS Felixstowe 1917. He served in RNAS Cattewater 18/09/1917. (He was demobilized 22/03/1919).
 
Vessels Owned
Aircraft Flown Curtiss H-12 Large America flying boat. (He had two victories and sank a submarine during the First World War.)
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Anecdotes
He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross on 22/06/1917, for flying a Curtiss H-12 Large America flying boat which sank the first submarine by the RNAS on 20/05/1917.
 
References
Hiorth, D. (1995); Grant, Scottie & Bob Murray (nd); Blatherwick, John (1992); MacFarlane, John and Robbie Hughes (1997); http://airforce.ca/uploads/airforce/2009/07/gong-1a-b.html; Email (Ian Gee - Nauticapedia 18/02/2022);
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