Frederick F. Minchin
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Frederick Frank Reilly Minchin | |
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Born | Madras, India | 16 June 1890
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force |
Rank | Lieutenant-Colonel |
Awards | Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order Military Cross |
Other work | Commercial pilot |
Disappeared | 31 August 1927 | (aged 37)
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Frank Reilly Minchin . He was declared dead in absentia after his aircraft disappeared in 1927 while attempting to cross the Atlantic.
Biography
Minchin was educated at
In 1918, the RFC and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) were merged into the Royal Air Force. In July 1919 he served in India and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) having gained three awards for gallantry and mentioned in dispatches on three occasions.
In 1923, Minchin joined one of the first British commercial airlines,
Disappearance
On 31 August 1927, Lieutenant-Colonel Minchin, Captain Leslie Hamilton and Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg took off from Upavon airfield in a Dutch Fokker F.VIIA named the St. Raphael in a bid to become the first aviators to cross the Atlantic from east to west.
The St. Raphael was last sighted some 800 miles (1,300 km) west of Galway heading for Newfoundland. The St Raphael was
See also
References
- ^ "No. 30450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1918. p. 29.