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unusual facts about Reginald Warneford


Reginald Warneford

Following a celebratory lunch, Warneford travelled to the aerodrome at Buc in order to ferry an aircraft for delivery to the RNAS at Veurne.


1915 in aviation

June 17 – Shortly after a ceremony in Paris in which he receives the French Légion d'honneur for shooting down the Zeppelin LZ 37 on June 7, Royal Naval Air Service Flight Sub-Lieutenant Reginald Warneford dies along with American journalist Henry Beach Newman in the crash of a new Farman biplane during takeoff from Buc, France.

Sint-Amandsberg

During the First World War, on 7 June 1915, the German airschip LZ37 crashed after being destroyed by Reginald Warneford.


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