08 - 06 - 1919 Crash d'un avion postal anglais reliant COLOGNE TO FOLKESTONE

Remembering Grove Former Pupil Second Lieutenant Gilbert Bannerman, 110th Sqdn RAF, who died on the 8Th June 1919 age 26 years. He was born 23.10.1892, and left Grove 14th February 1908. His parents were John and Elizabeth. Sadly his mother died before he was 5 years old. While in the RAF he crashed on a mail flight to Cologne, Floreffe, near Namur, Belgium. Gilbert is buried in Belgrade Cemetery, Namur, in Belgium. While leafing through the newspaper "Patriot Illustrated" of June 22, 1919, we discover an article about an accident of English mail plane to Floreffe, which would have made two victims, the occupants of the plane. It is by postcards of the time that we specify it was actually crashed at Soye Jodion on June 8, 1919. This fact could only be related in Vers l'Avenir of the time? It is in a "old paper" scholarship in 2016 that, shifted in a box, this V.A. ( as it was said there is little) resurfaced. Here is the excerpt that I let you discover, as well as some clippings English and French, taking over the news from Reuters. According to her, the plane would have spiraled and would have turned around. The pilot would have been ejected from the aircraft because he had not put on his seatbelt. It was found 250 meters from the observer who was lying under the engine. There was no mail on board.

So Reuter agency reports the information. Outside, in the military archives of the 103 squadron, it mentions that at each exit (more than 20 flights), Gilbert Bannerman is observer and non-pilot. The pilots with whom he had stolen were:
* Capt. Roy Edward Dodds October 30, 1918, departure: 07:50, return: 10:30, the squadron, led by Captain Dodds, attacked targets near Orcq, Tournai, Belgium, at an altitude of 14,000 feet. Turning to return home, the formation was attacked by ten enemy fighters. During the fighting that followed, two enemy aircraft were seen to lose control even though they did not see themselves crushed.
* Capt. John Stevenson Stubbs
* Lt. Leslie Weston Marchant born March 1, 1896
* Lieutenant Joel Gordon Chrispin Hirst / Crispin, then transferred to the 110th
* Major Michael Henry Braddon Nethersole (born September 15, 1891)

Gilbert Gunn BANNERMAN him, was born on October 23, 1892, York Place in Perth, second child of the first marriage of John Bannerman with Mollison Elisabeth, (seven children followed with his second wife, Jemima Meiklejohn).

Before enlisting, he served in the merchant marine. Aboard "Princess Victoria", they were attacked by a submarine. He understood that the navy was not for him. Then he had engaged for 10 years in the artillery. In case of problems, his uncle had to be forewarned: Bannerman, Thomas Gunn, commission agent, 79 Virginia Street; ho. 54 Garnethill Street.

Gilbert grew up in Glasgow. where it is commemorated on the Plaque of the Glasgow Sutherland Association,
Dornoch Cathedral He also rests at the Namur cemetery in Belgrade

The Grove Academy's World War I and World War II memorials have recently been the subject of significant conservation and restoration work since their installation outside the school building in 2010, after the school moves to its new premises. An unveiling ceremony was held on Wednesday, June 12, 2019. She presented the restored memorials inside the school building in the assembly hall. Staff and students participated in the search for former students on the honor list.