Notes
Hornshaw and Fowler provide all detail. He joined the school in 1899 and, upon leaving, became a War Correspondent for the Daily Express covering the Agadir Crisis in 1911, the 1st Balkan War in 1912, the fighting in Somaliland in 1913 (where he was temporarily imprisoned by the British Authorities) and the Russian Front in 1914. He then enlisted, first into the Yorkshire Regiment serving in Gallipoli (where he caught enteric) and then France where he won his MC at Trones Wood on the Somme. He then transferred to the RFC as an Observer.