Samuel Kinkead - British Ace of WW1

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  1. liverpool annie

    liverpool annie New Member

    The Church of All Saints - Fawley

    There are many notable tombstones within the Churchyard and it is certainly worth spending some time wandering through the seven acres. On the south side of the Church lies a large granite cross marking the grave of Flight Lieutenant Kinkead, D.S.O., D.S.C., D.F.C., who died while attempting to break the world air speed record. Kinkead was at the time a member of the R.A.F. High Speed Flight competing for the Schneider Trophy.

    Memorial to Flight Lieutenant
    Samuel Marcus Kinkead
    D.S.O D.F.C D.F.C
    Who died on the 18th March 1928
    While flying at Calshot. Gave
    his life in an attempt to beat
    the world's speed record

    Name: Samuel Marcus Kinkead
    Country: South Africa
    Rank: Captain
    Service: Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force
    Units: 3 Wing (RNAS) 1 Naval (RNAS) 201 (RAF)
    Victories: 33
    Date Of Birth: February 25, 1897
    Place of Birth: Johannesburg
    Date Of Death: March 12, 1928
    Place of Death: Calshot, Hampshire, England

    Joining the Royal Naval Air Service in September of 1915, Kinkead was assigned to the Dardanelles with 3 Naval Wing in 1916. Here he scored his first three victories flying Nieuport and Bristol Scouts. In 1917, he saw action on the Somme and at Ypres while serving with 1 Naval Squadron. In April of 1918, this unit became 201 Squadron of the newly formed Royal Air Force. Flying the Sopwith Camel, Kinkead scored 24 victories and ended the war as 201 Squadron's highest scoring ace.

    After the war, he served with 47 Squadron in Russia, scoring several more victories and receiving the Distinguished Service Order. In 1921, as a flight commander under Raymond Collishaw, Kinkead saw action with 30 Squadron in the Middle East. In 1928, as a member of the RAF Schneider Trophy team, Kinkead was killed in a crash as he attempted to break the world air speed record in a Supermarine S5.
     

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  2. liverpool annie

    liverpool annie New Member

    Snippets

    * Kinkead was born in Johannesburg South Africa - to an Irish father and Scottish mother who had recently emigrated to South Africa. He was the second son - with an elder brother named Thompson Calder Kinkead born 1893

    * The cause of the crash was never determined - it was ironic that a man who had survived so many deadly combats should have died when everyone was willing him to succeed

     
  3. liverpool annie

    liverpool annie New Member

    In Memory of
    Second Lieutenant T C KINKEAD

    No 3 Training Sqdn., Royal Flying Corps
    who died
    on 03 September 1917

    Remembered with honour
    OLD SHOREHAM CEMETERY
     
  4. Dolphin

    Dolphin New Member

    2Lt T C Kinkead of No 3 TS RFC was killed in an accident while flying Maurice Farman Shorthorn A2468 on 3 September 1917.

    Gareth
     

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