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REES
1. Name
2. Date Commissioned
3. Date Retired
4. Rank
5. Awarded Wings
6. Flying Schools
7. Aircraft Types Flown
8. Squadrons
9. Aircraft Carriers
10. Senior Appointments
11. Decorations
John Leslie Llewellyn REES
1 September 1917
Killed in aircraft accident 17 August 1926
Lieutenant RM
14 June 1925
R.A.F Netheravon
R.A.F Leuchars
Bomber/Reconnaissance, Torpedo
No record. Probably 421 Flight
Furious 15 June 1925 to 11 January 1926
None
None
12. General
13. RAF Rank
After the Great War during which he was still under training, he served in H.M.S. Emperor of India in the Black Sea during the Bolshevik rising in South Russia in 1919 and 1920. Subsequently he was serving in "Cleopatra" (Mediterranean Fleet) in 1924 when he was one of the first of 19 RM Officers to volunteer for flying duties in the Fleet Air Arm.
After training at Netheravon and Leuchars he qualified as a Torpedo Pilot and was serving at R.A.F. Gosport when he was killed in a flying accident on 17 August 1926.
Flying Officer
Flying Marines
A History of Royal Marines Aviation
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