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Smith, Guy Duncan

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Title Flight Sub-Lieutenant (RNAS)
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Birth 21/10/1894 Death (nk)
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Honours DSC. Croix de Guerre (France)
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Biography
His parents were still British when his father operated a motion picture theatre in Oakland, California. He was educated in England. Prior to joining the RNAS he was a radio telegraph operator where he had an experience (in Mexico); in a letter he said, "I am the operator who put the wireless set on the German steamer Mazatlan out of commission last September [1914] on account of them wanting me to let a German Navy operator use it and get into communication with the cruiser Leipzig and send her the positions, dates of sailing and destinations of British merchant ships, coming up and down the Pacific coast."
 
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He was accepted in Canada as an RNAS candidate, June 1915; returned to San Francisco and began training at the Christofferson Flying School about 14 /07/1915. Sworn in at Ottawa as Probationary Flight Sub-Lieutenant, 18/09/1915, backdated to 06/09/1915; sailed on the Corinthian from Montreal, 21 September 1915. After service in Egypt he was returned to Britain, and on 12 September 1919 sailed on the Megantic for North America, his destination being given as Oakland, California.
 
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References
Hiorth, D. (1995); Grant, Scottie & Bob Murray (nd); MacFarlane, John and Robbie Hughes (1997); http://airforce.ca/uploads/airforce/2009/07/gong-8s-t.html
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2010-12-04 00:00:00

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