Charles Edmonds
Air Vice Marshal Charles Humphrey Kingsman Edmonds, CBE, DSO (20 April 1891 – 26 September 1954) was air officer of the Royal Air Force (RAF). He first served in the Royal Navy and was a naval aviator during the First World War, taking part in the Cuxhaven Raid in December 1914; and while serving in the Gallipoli Campaign (1915) he was the first man to sink an enemy ship from an aircraft, using a torpedo. In the interbellum he remained in the RAF, becoming a senior staff officer during World War II.
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Charles Edmonds
Air Vice Marshal Charles Humphrey Kingsman Edmonds, CBE, DSO (20 April 1891 – 26 September 1954) was air officer of the Royal Air Force (RAF). He first served in the Royal Navy and was a naval aviator during the First World War, taking part in the Cuxhaven Raid in December 1914; and while serving in the Gallipoli Campaign (1915) he was the first man to sink an enemy ship from an aircraft, using a torpedo. In the interbellum he remained in the RAF, becoming a senior staff officer during World War II.
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Charles Humphrey Kingsman Edmo ...... te la Seconda guerra mondiale.
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No. 21 Group(1931–32)
No. 6 Wing RNAS(1917–18)
RAF Worthy Down(1929–31)
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First World War
* Cuxhaven Raid
* Gallipoli Campaign
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1891-04-20
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Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
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Edmonds in naval uniform, 1912
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1954-09-26
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Surrey, England
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Lorna Karim Chadwick Osborn
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