setting an Australian record for an aeroplane carrying more than one person. In August Vigers set off in his Sopwith Gnu on a two-week tour of Victoria with Howard Jolley and Dr J. Webb from the Life Insurance Company of Australia as passengers. However, on 2 August, while taking off from Kerang, the aircraft crashed. Fortunately no one was injured. In mid-March 1923 Vigers flew the last of the Avro aeroplanes built by the Australian Aircraft & Engineering Company from Sydney to Melbourne. In May Vigers was surveying an air route from Adelaide to Sydney via Melbourne on behalf of the Defence Department. He and Air Mechanic G. Held successfully flew their Airco DH.9 from Sydney to Adelaide, but on the return flight crashed at Jerrawa near Yass. The aircraft was wrecked, but both men escaped with only minor injuries. Vigers also worked for the Qantas Aerial Mail Service, until leaving in May 1924. In November 1925 he was working for the West Australian Mail Service, taking part in the transportation by air of a body from Fitzroy Crossing on a flight to Perth, Western Australia, for burial. Vigers married Marjorie Frances Vigers, of Kippington House, Sevenoaks, at St. Mary's Church, Kippington, Sevenoaks, Kent, on 10 August 1929. He served in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II. Vigers died in Bunbury, Western Australia, in September 1968. References Bibliography 1890 births 1968 deaths People from Isleworth People educated at Mill Hill School British Army personnel of World War I Royal Engineers officers Royal Flying Corps officers British World War I flying aces Recipients of the Military Cross Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom) English emigrants to Australia British aviation record holders Commercial aviators