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Born
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gallipoli
served on Gallipoli and, as dispatch rider, in Egypt and France -
sargent
as sergeant, he transferred to the Australia flying corps and commissioned as second lieutenant, royal flying corps -
officier
appointed officer in may and in July joined no.23 squadron in France promotion to lieutenant in April -
Moved to Australia
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australia airways
Australia in January 1921 he worked first in Sydney with another joy-riding organization, the diggers’ aviation co., and then as a salaried pilot for Norman berley’s Western Australia airways ltd. -
marble bar
at marble bar, western Australia he married Thelma Eileen hope crop boy -
partnership
Partnership in 1924 with fellow pilot Keith Anderson air transport in Australia -
aids
June 1927 Kingsford smith and Ulm complete a round- Australia circuit in 10 days, 5 hours a bootable achievement with minimal navigational aids -
flying services
They raised the capital to buy two Bristol tourers by operating a trucking business from Carnarvon, the Gascoyne transport co. And in 1927 they returned to Sydney to operate with churls Ulm as interstate flying services -
lost
Lost on April 1 1929, saved 13 April. Some of the term died while wanting 1930 divorced in May 1929, he married Mary Powell on 19 December 1930 at Scots church, Melbourne -
southern cross
April 1931 he flew the Southern Cross on an emergency mission to pick mail for Australia from a damaged imperial airways plane in Timor -
services
In 1932, when he was knighted for services to aviation -
no body
8th November 1935 diapered over the alderman sea. 18 months later the plane was found but no body