German forces Ivor Novello – entertainer Richard Peirse – later Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, KCB, DSO, AFC, AOC Palestine/Trans Jordan 1933–36, C-in-C Bomber Command 1940–42, C-in-C RAF India 1942–44, C-in-C SEAC air forces from creation until 1944. John Cyril Porte – aviation pioneer and aircraft designer, Station Commander Hendon Aerodrome and RNAS Felixstowe. Charles Rumney Samson – initial commandant of the RFC Naval Wing, led the first armoured car units on the Western Front, later Air Officer Commanding RAF units in the Mediterranean William Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill – air pioneer Alexander MacDonald Shook – flying ace of Naval 4 and recipient of the Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Service Cross, Air Force Cross and Croix de Guerre Edward Maitland – aviation pioneer, Officer Commanding the Captive Balloon Detachment Edgar Middleton – playwright and author Ivan Stedeford – industrialist Murray Sueter – pioneer of naval aviation Sir Frederick Sykes – initial commander of RFC Military Wing, officer commanding RNAS at Gallipoli & later, controller-general of Civil Aviation and Governor of Bombay Adrian Tonks – flying ace of Naval 4, winner of two Distinguished Flying Crosses Taunton Elliott Viney – credited with bombing a U Boat off Middelkerke and was awarded the D.S.O. Barnes Wallis – engineer, designer of the R9 and R80 airships, famed for the bouncing bomb Reginald Alexander John Warneford – awarded the Victoria Cross Josiah Wedgwood – awarded the D.S.O., commanded the machine guns on the SS River Clyde John Weston – South Africa's first aviator. First World War service in France, Eastern Mediterranean (Mudros, Lemnos) and with British Naval Mission to Greece James White – Naval 8 – ace Tony Wilding – New Zealand World number 1 tennis player for 1912 and 1913; later an RNACD armoured car commander, killed on the Western Front in 1915 Naval vessels , a light cruiser converted into a seaplane carrier. Sunk by German U-boat U-27 on 31 October 1914. , , , and , all converted Channel ferries. The first three ships each carrying three seaplanes were the "striking force" of the first naval air attack, the raid on Cuxhaven on 25 December 1914. HMS Vindex had a take-off ramp fitted and was the first operational ship to launch a wheeled aircraft. , a fast Isle of Man ferry converted to a seaplane carrier that served in the Gallipoli Campaign. Ben-My-Chree supplied the aircraft that made the first