Sir Kingsford Smith

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  • Born

  • 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

  • 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