 No. 5 Squadron was disbanded in May 1919 . Along with many other Australian Flying Corps personnel , including Colonel Watt , Major King , and Captain Les Holden , Malley returned to Australia aboard the troopship Kaisar @-@ i @-@ Hind , disembarking in Sydney on 19 June . He subsequently toured the country to promote the Peace Loan . On 24 August , while travelling from Melbourne to Sydney to commence his series of demonstration flights around New South Wales , Malley crashed his Avro 504K during takeoff from Benalla , Victoria . He was uninjured but had to return to Melbourne and eventually made his way north by train . Resuming his aerial program , he was reported on 17 September as having " thrilled " lunch @-@ time crowds in Sydney the previous day with " three daring spiral dives " over Hyde Park . Malley was discharged from the AIF on 4 October 1919 , and commissioned a captain in the Commonwealth Military Forces Reserve on 1 July 1920 . He rejoined Malley 's as a warehouse manager in 1921 . In May that year , he served with Les Holden and other veteran pilots as a pall @-@ bearer at Watt 's funeral in Randwick . On 25 January 1922 , Malley married Phyllis Kathleen Dare in Mosman . The union would produce one son , Maldon . Malley was acknowledged as both a source and a reviewer by F.M. Cutlack in the latter 's volume on the Australian Flying Corps , first published in 1923 as part of the official history of Australia in the war . 
