The Story of the Three Harrys
The Tarrant Workshops.
The story of Harry Hawker, Harry Busteed and Harry Kauper starts at a workshop in Russel St Melbourne. The workshop was owned and operated by an engineer that had worked in the Kalgoorlie (WA) gold mines around at the same time as an American engineer "Herbert Hover" was there. Col Harley Tarrant had the license to produce the "Carlisle " from Scotland. As a army militia Colonel in Victoria he had a lot to do with John Monash and had government contracts.
The increase in his production and meant he needed to collect some of the most talented mechanics in Melbourne. Harry Busteed was a brash loud mechanic who had a short Irish temper and a like of fast motor bikes. Harry Kauper was quiet and intelligent auto electrition mechanic from Hawthorn. The rest of the group included Eric Harrison from Clicker Hill, Horri Miller from Creswick, Bob Cousins from St Kilda, Maurice Shmith and brothers Cecil and Norm DeFraga.
Together they built and raced motor bikes around the streets, parks and velodromes of Melbourne. At one stage the bikes were becoming so heavy and powerful that the group was band from using the Saucer velodromes in St Kilda Rd, because they were tearing up the boards.
The Chauffeurs an racing drivers.
The story of Harry Hawker, Harry Busteed and Harry Kauper starts at a workshop in Russel St Melbourne. The workshop was owned and operated by an engineer that had worked in the Kalgoorlie (WA) gold mines around at the same time as an American engineer "Herbert Hover" was there. Col Harley Tarrant had the license to produce the "Carlisle " from Scotland. As a army militia Colonel in Victoria he had a lot to do with John Monash and had government contracts.
The increase in his production and meant he needed to collect some of the most talented mechanics in Melbourne. Harry Busteed was a brash loud mechanic who had a short Irish temper and a like of fast motor bikes. Harry Kauper was quiet and intelligent auto electrition mechanic from Hawthorn. The rest of the group included Eric Harrison from Clicker Hill, Horri Miller from Creswick, Bob Cousins from St Kilda, Maurice Shmith and brothers Cecil and Norm DeFraga.
Together they built and raced motor bikes around the streets, parks and velodromes of Melbourne. At one stage the bikes were becoming so heavy and powerful that the group was band from using the Saucer velodromes in St Kilda Rd, because they were tearing up the boards.
The Chauffeurs an racing drivers.
The Three Harry's and Hawkers friends.
Henry (Harry) Richard Busteed OBE AFC
http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4774067 Born in North Carlton, Victoria Australia 6 Nov 1887 to parents Jessie May (nee Marson) and Henry Richard Busteed, Worked at the Tarrent Automobile Workshops Melbourne his friends Harry Hawker, Harry Kauper (The Three Harry's) Horri Miller, Cecil De Fraga and Eric Harrison. With Hawker and Kauper saw the flight off [Houdini] at Diggers Rest Victoria Australia in 1910. In 1911 moved to the UK and stared working with Bristol Aviation with Eric Harrison.[Bristol Aviation Company] Busteed and Harrison gained their Royal Aero Club(RAeC) flying Certificate making Busteed the first Australian to gain the Certificate 94 on the 13 June 1911and became a test pilot working on the Bristol Scout, flying the Bristol Hydro no.120 in competition and trainer. Training the pilots of Bristol client he became the first man to fly a powered fixed wing aircraft in Spain. He was involved in a crash in 26th of June 1914when the undercarriage of the Bristol S.S.A failed. He trained Royal Navy pilot and was by 1913 in the Royal Navy Special Reserve. Busteed was offered the position as the first training officer of the Australian Flying Corp, However he declined the offer taking an appointment with the RNAS. The position at the AFC was taken by Eric Harrison and Henry Petre who started the central flying school at Point Cook Victoria.
During his service he was awarded for an leading an attack on the German occupied Belgian coast, he was in command of the RNAS research facility at the Isle of Grain. He was a pilot on the HMS Hermes when it was sunk by torpedo in the English Channel in Commander Busteed was on the HMS Furious during the Dunning and Rutland deck landing trials at Scarpa Flow and was the third man to make a successful deck landing. In march 1915 he was sent to the USA to consult with USN on flight deck technology. He was directly involved with the development Sopwith-Kauper interrupter gear for use in the Sopwith Camel, being tested at the Beasley firing range with Harry Kauper and Harry Hawker. The capture cable used on flight decks was known as the Busteed Trap up until the 30s. Busteed was made a Permanent Commission as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1919 and was Officer in Charge, RAF Base, Gosport 1921.Air Staff, HQ No 1 Group 1923,OC Flying, HMS Furious 1925, RAF Worthy Down 1927,Officer Commanding, No 10 Sqn, No 203 Sqn 1928, Retiring from service in 1939.In the same month her retired from his Commission he returned to service as Officer in Charge of the No 33 (Balloon Barrage) Group and later the No 34 (Balloon Barrage) Group, retiring again in 1941. In his retirement he reconditioned cars in his garage in Penzance.Henry Busteed Died on the 14th June 1965. Penzance UK.
References
Sydney Pickels was born 17th June, 1894 in Marrickville suburban Sydney, New South Wales, Australia to Mendelssohn Pickels and Lily Louise Edmunds, he appears quite a few times in the story of Harry Hawker, we know that he worked for Short Bothers engineering as a test pilot haveing travelled to England in 1912. He gained his Royal Aero Club Aviator's Certificate No 263 on 30 July 1912. In 1913 he broke the altitude record of 6,100 feet in a Bleriot XI mono plane. During Harry Hawker and Harry Kauper’s attempt on the round Britain race in 1913 Sydney Pickels stood in for Harry Hawker on one of the legs on loan from Short Bothers. It also appears that he had also worked for the Blackburn and Fairey aviation Companies up till 1914.
When World War I started Sydney Pickels volunteered for service or well may have been in the special Navy reserve like Harry Busteed, becoming officer in the RoyalNaval Air Service. Sydney was involved in U-Boat patrols in the English Channel and some of the first raids over Germany, based at Eastchurch a training facility on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. Attaining the rank of captain, however by July 1915 he had resigned his commission.
Whatever he was doing after that period he was still involved in the aviation industry more likely with Short Bros who were still dealing with the Royal Naval Air Service and supplying aircraft, Shorts invented the swinging wings for aircraft carrier aircraft. The rights to the patient were sold to Tom Sopwith for £100, however, that was the only royalties that Shorts gained from Sopwith.
Sydney finally appears at the inaugural meeting of H G Hawker engineering at the Savoy London with Harry Hawker and Tom Sopwith in 1920 and I would assume he was still in London when Harry Hawker died in 1921. There is one mention that he did return to Sydney for a few years trying to get into the still small time aviation industry in Australia, with little success.
The next time that Sydney Pickels appears is in British Columbia Canada and started the Victoria flying club where he trained pilots until it is plane was involved in a crash flown by one of his students. From then it appears he only repaired aircraft and had a engine servicing buisness. In 1951 he was elected to the first municipal Council of Central Saanich, British Colombia. Sydney died in 1975 in Victoria British Columbia where his family still lives today.
It is unfortunate that there is very little record of him in the history of aviation and what records there are in British Columbia are only accessible directly. I would really like to finish the story of Sydney Pickles and his relationship with Harry Hawker and Commander Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve.
Name: PICKLES, SYDNEY Gender:Male Age: 81 Date: 1975/11/23 Event Place: VICTORIA Registration Number: 1975-09-017395 Event Type: Death
Vital Stat Images(s): 004479355_00518.jpg
http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy/BasicSearchResult?as.EventTypeDeaths=true&as.FirstName=sydney&as.FirstNameOption=Any&as.LastName=pickles&as.LastNameOption=Any&as.StartYear=&as.EndYear=&search=Search
http://ozrnas.org.au/The%20Men/P/PICKLES%20S.html
http://www.flyvfc.com/
https://flagspot.net/flags/ca-bccsa.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Brothers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Aircraft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Aviation_Company
Commander Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve RN AFC
Published by Jim Dale · 16 July 2014 at 15:27Commander Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve RN AFC
Commander Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve (b.1880), RN by Ambrose McEvoy
Apart from a few books, there is very little to be found on Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve. The Mackenzie Grieve family has a long heritage, with a great deal of family information on many web sites and the Royal Navy. However, Kenneth appears to have jumped up into public view with the Atlantic Crossing Attempt with Harry Hawker and then disappears.
Commander Kenneth J Mackenzie Grieve (Born 1880) first appears on Royal Navy records on an incident in1903. He is then a navigator of a MHS Vipire that sunk and the Captains court marshaled.
He then appears on the list RNOfficers who qualified as Masters in the Merchant Service circa late 1870s -Jan 1922.
He was then mentioned in Muriel’s Book in 1922 as being the navigator of the HMS Furious when Commander Dunning, Rutland and Harry Busteed were at Scarpa Flow, Scotland,during the deck landing trials where Dunning drowned. Muriel says Harry Hawker met him there. This is all I have to place Hawker on the deck of the HMS Furious during the trials and would directly connect him to aircraft carrier development.
During Harry’s extremely worrying back problems that stopped him from enlisting and nearly stopped Harry working. It was Kenneth who put him in touch with Christian Science that got him through.
Grieve and Hawker in front of their Sopwith Atlantic Harry Hawker must have gotten on very well as Kenneth, a quiet proper RN officer to allow Harry to call him “Mac” and in 1919 he was Harry's first choice as navigator for the Atlantic attempt showing his faith in Kenneth’s abilities as a navigator.
In “Our Atlantic Attempt” you can see in Mackenzie Grieve part of the story, he is confident and technical and was defiantly Hawkers
Our Atlantic Attempt best choice. As the flight became harder and further from a successful finnish it was Mackenzie Grieves Knowledge of the Atlantic, the shipping lanes and his skills that saved them.
Then in 1923 in the Manchester Times:
Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve was the youngest son of Captain John Mackenzie Grieve and he married Janet Clinton Baddeley of Dibden, Hants on the 25thof June 1923.
There is was no more on Kenneth from Lew Blackmores book "Hawker", until there was a query about him on a chat page in 2007:
RE: Mackenzie Grieve
Author:annsa
Time Stamp:
18:39:1620 July 2007
Post:
Mackenzie-Grieve's rank at the time of the flight was Commander and he had been navigator of the Cunard ship Campania (info from The Times which has quite a bit on him, however, I haven't managed to work out how to copy text from there!)
Death announced in The Times Sept 28th 1942. I haven't been able to find an obituary for him which seems unusual. However, with the year of his death you could order his death cert from the ONS, it can all be done online but you may have to pay a bit more for the search of the death indices unless someone else can come up with it here.
All the best,
His death certificate can be found in the British Columbia register 1942-09-611648 died 1942/09/26 Oak Bay.A fascinating man and sadly forgotten, except his fortunate contact and friendship with Harry Hawker.
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1923/1923%20-%200334.html
Captain , Henry(Harry) John, Butler AFC, "The Red Devil"
Harry Butler Memorial Born Yorktown South Australia 9th of November 1889. was known for building model Planes and be came a mechanic, when war started he joined the AFC at Point Cook Victoria an sent to Europe.
The Red Devil He was commissioned 3 weeks after joining and was a specialist trainer in German tactics by 1917.
PlaqueOn his return to Australia he started South Australian Aviation Company with Harry Hawker close friend Harry Kauper. The Company failed after a year and Harry Kauper went on to be a Radio Expert.Harry Butler and Harry Kauper
Capt H J Bulter RFC In 1922 he started a motor dealership in his Minlaton SA However after an accident he lost his health and died in 1924.
Butlers' Grave North Road Cemetery
http://www.awm.gov.au/view/book/100032105/?query=henry+butler+afc&op=Search&format=list§ion[0]=people§ion[1]=articles§ion[2]=books§ion[3]=collections
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/butler-henry-john-5446
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Butler_%28aviator%29
http://www.saam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SAAM-Profiles-HARRY-BUTLER.pdf
http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/butler.htm
http://archive.today/x8sJS
Captain Andrew Lang RFC AFC "The Napier Lion"
Published by Jim Dale · 8 March 2014 at 17:09Captain Andrew Lang
Born 25th of AUGUST 1888 at the family property Walla Walla near Corowa NSW Australia. His farther a Doctor W, H Lang a handy-caper for the VRChttp://vrc.net.au/ and was the nephew of the MYTH, RITUAL, AND RELIGION author Andrew Lang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lang. Schooled Melbourne Grammar, worked at the South Caufeild garage of C J Kellow, Victoria, raced cars for Kellows' with Harry Busteed. At one point he was the personal chauffeur of Dame Neile Melba.Lang married Olive and lived in Park St South Yarra, Melbourne Joined the RFC in England by persuading a relative in the UK, returned to Australia in 1917 to start with the the 4th Australian Flying Corp as a Captain and sent to France. The 4th AFC was equipped with Sowith aircraft mainly the Camel. His association with Harry Hawker, Lang was in contact from his time working at Kellows and his involvement in racing and his time with the RFC and AFC. In 1919 Captain Lang made an attempt on the Altitude record of 30,500 feet (9302.5 Meters) passing out and recovering just before reaching the ground. The aircraft he flew was a De Haviland with a Napier Lion Engine. Lang's involvement in Motor racing again and known as the "Napier Lion" the name he used in his motor articles in the Sydney Sun. On his returned after the war he not only became a columist but took up motor racing again. Captain Andrew Lang was killed in May 1923 in an accident survived by his wife and daughter.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?l-usertag=Lang&q=
http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/SmithGaryL/8726.htm
http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/aircraft/2029-dh9-absolute-ceiling.html
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/57386164?searchTerm=Capt.%20Andrew%20Lang%20&searchLimits=
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/67141570?searchTerm=Capt.%20Andrew%20Lang%20&searchLimits=
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/63761884?searchTerm=Capt.%20%22Andrew%20Lang%22%20&searchLimits=l-decade=191#reloadOnBack
http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4774067 Born in North Carlton, Victoria Australia 6 Nov 1887 to parents Jessie May (nee Marson) and Henry Richard Busteed, Worked at the Tarrent Automobile Workshops Melbourne his friends Harry Hawker, Harry Kauper (The Three Harry's) Horri Miller, Cecil De Fraga and Eric Harrison. With Hawker and Kauper saw the flight off [Houdini] at Diggers Rest Victoria Australia in 1910. In 1911 moved to the UK and stared working with Bristol Aviation with Eric Harrison.[Bristol Aviation Company] Busteed and Harrison gained their Royal Aero Club(RAeC) flying Certificate making Busteed the first Australian to gain the Certificate 94 on the 13 June 1911and became a test pilot working on the Bristol Scout, flying the Bristol Hydro no.120 in competition and trainer. Training the pilots of Bristol client he became the first man to fly a powered fixed wing aircraft in Spain. He was involved in a crash in 26th of June 1914when the undercarriage of the Bristol S.S.A failed. He trained Royal Navy pilot and was by 1913 in the Royal Navy Special Reserve. Busteed was offered the position as the first training officer of the Australian Flying Corp, However he declined the offer taking an appointment with the RNAS. The position at the AFC was taken by Eric Harrison and Henry Petre who started the central flying school at Point Cook Victoria.
During his service he was awarded for an leading an attack on the German occupied Belgian coast, he was in command of the RNAS research facility at the Isle of Grain. He was a pilot on the HMS Hermes when it was sunk by torpedo in the English Channel in Commander Busteed was on the HMS Furious during the Dunning and Rutland deck landing trials at Scarpa Flow and was the third man to make a successful deck landing. In march 1915 he was sent to the USA to consult with USN on flight deck technology. He was directly involved with the development Sopwith-Kauper interrupter gear for use in the Sopwith Camel, being tested at the Beasley firing range with Harry Kauper and Harry Hawker. The capture cable used on flight decks was known as the Busteed Trap up until the 30s. Busteed was made a Permanent Commission as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1919 and was Officer in Charge, RAF Base, Gosport 1921.Air Staff, HQ No 1 Group 1923,OC Flying, HMS Furious 1925, RAF Worthy Down 1927,Officer Commanding, No 10 Sqn, No 203 Sqn 1928, Retiring from service in 1939.In the same month her retired from his Commission he returned to service as Officer in Charge of the No 33 (Balloon Barrage) Group and later the No 34 (Balloon Barrage) Group, retiring again in 1941. In his retirement he reconditioned cars in his garage in Penzance.Henry Busteed Died on the 14th June 1965. Penzance UK.
References
- Sopwith aircraft, 1912-1920 Horace Frederick King Putnam, 1981Early Birds:
- Magnificent Men of Australian Aviation Between the Wars Horace Clive Miller Rigby, 1976
- Hawker, One of Aviation's Greatest Names: A Biography of Harry Hawker, MBE, AFC L. K. Blackmore David Bateman Limited, 1990
Sydney Pickels was born 17th June, 1894 in Marrickville suburban Sydney, New South Wales, Australia to Mendelssohn Pickels and Lily Louise Edmunds, he appears quite a few times in the story of Harry Hawker, we know that he worked for Short Bothers engineering as a test pilot haveing travelled to England in 1912. He gained his Royal Aero Club Aviator's Certificate No 263 on 30 July 1912. In 1913 he broke the altitude record of 6,100 feet in a Bleriot XI mono plane. During Harry Hawker and Harry Kauper’s attempt on the round Britain race in 1913 Sydney Pickels stood in for Harry Hawker on one of the legs on loan from Short Bothers. It also appears that he had also worked for the Blackburn and Fairey aviation Companies up till 1914.
When World War I started Sydney Pickels volunteered for service or well may have been in the special Navy reserve like Harry Busteed, becoming officer in the RoyalNaval Air Service. Sydney was involved in U-Boat patrols in the English Channel and some of the first raids over Germany, based at Eastchurch a training facility on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. Attaining the rank of captain, however by July 1915 he had resigned his commission.
Whatever he was doing after that period he was still involved in the aviation industry more likely with Short Bros who were still dealing with the Royal Naval Air Service and supplying aircraft, Shorts invented the swinging wings for aircraft carrier aircraft. The rights to the patient were sold to Tom Sopwith for £100, however, that was the only royalties that Shorts gained from Sopwith.
Sydney finally appears at the inaugural meeting of H G Hawker engineering at the Savoy London with Harry Hawker and Tom Sopwith in 1920 and I would assume he was still in London when Harry Hawker died in 1921. There is one mention that he did return to Sydney for a few years trying to get into the still small time aviation industry in Australia, with little success.
The next time that Sydney Pickels appears is in British Columbia Canada and started the Victoria flying club where he trained pilots until it is plane was involved in a crash flown by one of his students. From then it appears he only repaired aircraft and had a engine servicing buisness. In 1951 he was elected to the first municipal Council of Central Saanich, British Colombia. Sydney died in 1975 in Victoria British Columbia where his family still lives today.
It is unfortunate that there is very little record of him in the history of aviation and what records there are in British Columbia are only accessible directly. I would really like to finish the story of Sydney Pickles and his relationship with Harry Hawker and Commander Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve.
Name: PICKLES, SYDNEY Gender:Male Age: 81 Date: 1975/11/23 Event Place: VICTORIA Registration Number: 1975-09-017395 Event Type: Death
Vital Stat Images(s): 004479355_00518.jpg
http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy/BasicSearchResult?as.EventTypeDeaths=true&as.FirstName=sydney&as.FirstNameOption=Any&as.LastName=pickles&as.LastNameOption=Any&as.StartYear=&as.EndYear=&search=Search
http://ozrnas.org.au/The%20Men/P/PICKLES%20S.html
http://www.flyvfc.com/
https://flagspot.net/flags/ca-bccsa.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Brothers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Aircraft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Aviation_Company
Commander Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve RN AFC
Published by Jim Dale · 16 July 2014 at 15:27Commander Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve RN AFC
Commander Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve (b.1880), RN by Ambrose McEvoy
Apart from a few books, there is very little to be found on Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve. The Mackenzie Grieve family has a long heritage, with a great deal of family information on many web sites and the Royal Navy. However, Kenneth appears to have jumped up into public view with the Atlantic Crossing Attempt with Harry Hawker and then disappears.
Commander Kenneth J Mackenzie Grieve (Born 1880) first appears on Royal Navy records on an incident in1903. He is then a navigator of a MHS Vipire that sunk and the Captains court marshaled.
He then appears on the list RNOfficers who qualified as Masters in the Merchant Service circa late 1870s -Jan 1922.
He was then mentioned in Muriel’s Book in 1922 as being the navigator of the HMS Furious when Commander Dunning, Rutland and Harry Busteed were at Scarpa Flow, Scotland,during the deck landing trials where Dunning drowned. Muriel says Harry Hawker met him there. This is all I have to place Hawker on the deck of the HMS Furious during the trials and would directly connect him to aircraft carrier development.
During Harry’s extremely worrying back problems that stopped him from enlisting and nearly stopped Harry working. It was Kenneth who put him in touch with Christian Science that got him through.
Grieve and Hawker in front of their Sopwith Atlantic Harry Hawker must have gotten on very well as Kenneth, a quiet proper RN officer to allow Harry to call him “Mac” and in 1919 he was Harry's first choice as navigator for the Atlantic attempt showing his faith in Kenneth’s abilities as a navigator.
In “Our Atlantic Attempt” you can see in Mackenzie Grieve part of the story, he is confident and technical and was defiantly Hawkers
Our Atlantic Attempt best choice. As the flight became harder and further from a successful finnish it was Mackenzie Grieves Knowledge of the Atlantic, the shipping lanes and his skills that saved them.
Then in 1923 in the Manchester Times:
Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve was the youngest son of Captain John Mackenzie Grieve and he married Janet Clinton Baddeley of Dibden, Hants on the 25thof June 1923.
There is was no more on Kenneth from Lew Blackmores book "Hawker", until there was a query about him on a chat page in 2007:
RE: Mackenzie Grieve
Author:annsa
Time Stamp:
18:39:1620 July 2007
Post:
Mackenzie-Grieve's rank at the time of the flight was Commander and he had been navigator of the Cunard ship Campania (info from The Times which has quite a bit on him, however, I haven't managed to work out how to copy text from there!)
Death announced in The Times Sept 28th 1942. I haven't been able to find an obituary for him which seems unusual. However, with the year of his death you could order his death cert from the ONS, it can all be done online but you may have to pay a bit more for the search of the death indices unless someone else can come up with it here.
All the best,
His death certificate can be found in the British Columbia register 1942-09-611648 died 1942/09/26 Oak Bay.A fascinating man and sadly forgotten, except his fortunate contact and friendship with Harry Hawker.
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1923/1923%20-%200334.html
Captain , Henry(Harry) John, Butler AFC, "The Red Devil"
Harry Butler Memorial Born Yorktown South Australia 9th of November 1889. was known for building model Planes and be came a mechanic, when war started he joined the AFC at Point Cook Victoria an sent to Europe.
The Red Devil He was commissioned 3 weeks after joining and was a specialist trainer in German tactics by 1917.
PlaqueOn his return to Australia he started South Australian Aviation Company with Harry Hawker close friend Harry Kauper. The Company failed after a year and Harry Kauper went on to be a Radio Expert.Harry Butler and Harry Kauper
Capt H J Bulter RFC In 1922 he started a motor dealership in his Minlaton SA However after an accident he lost his health and died in 1924.
Butlers' Grave North Road Cemetery
http://www.awm.gov.au/view/book/100032105/?query=henry+butler+afc&op=Search&format=list§ion[0]=people§ion[1]=articles§ion[2]=books§ion[3]=collections
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/butler-henry-john-5446
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Butler_%28aviator%29
http://www.saam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SAAM-Profiles-HARRY-BUTLER.pdf
http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/butler.htm
http://archive.today/x8sJS
Captain Andrew Lang RFC AFC "The Napier Lion"
Published by Jim Dale · 8 March 2014 at 17:09Captain Andrew Lang
Born 25th of AUGUST 1888 at the family property Walla Walla near Corowa NSW Australia. His farther a Doctor W, H Lang a handy-caper for the VRChttp://vrc.net.au/ and was the nephew of the MYTH, RITUAL, AND RELIGION author Andrew Lang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lang. Schooled Melbourne Grammar, worked at the South Caufeild garage of C J Kellow, Victoria, raced cars for Kellows' with Harry Busteed. At one point he was the personal chauffeur of Dame Neile Melba.Lang married Olive and lived in Park St South Yarra, Melbourne Joined the RFC in England by persuading a relative in the UK, returned to Australia in 1917 to start with the the 4th Australian Flying Corp as a Captain and sent to France. The 4th AFC was equipped with Sowith aircraft mainly the Camel. His association with Harry Hawker, Lang was in contact from his time working at Kellows and his involvement in racing and his time with the RFC and AFC. In 1919 Captain Lang made an attempt on the Altitude record of 30,500 feet (9302.5 Meters) passing out and recovering just before reaching the ground. The aircraft he flew was a De Haviland with a Napier Lion Engine. Lang's involvement in Motor racing again and known as the "Napier Lion" the name he used in his motor articles in the Sydney Sun. On his returned after the war he not only became a columist but took up motor racing again. Captain Andrew Lang was killed in May 1923 in an accident survived by his wife and daughter.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?l-usertag=Lang&q=
http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/SmithGaryL/8726.htm
http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/aircraft/2029-dh9-absolute-ceiling.html
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/57386164?searchTerm=Capt.%20Andrew%20Lang%20&searchLimits=
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/67141570?searchTerm=Capt.%20Andrew%20Lang%20&searchLimits=
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/63761884?searchTerm=Capt.%20%22Andrew%20Lang%22%20&searchLimits=l-decade=191#reloadOnBack
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