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...speaker was Air Ministry Inspector McWade, assigned to Cardington Royal Airship Works. The R-101'S airworthiness certificate was issued by Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, England's air minister, who was killed with 47 others when the gigantic dirigible plowed into a hillside in France (TIME...
Funeral. Through the stifled silence of a million watchers, 48 British army wagons carried the 48 dead of the R-101 crash through London streets last week. Prime Minister MacDonald watched from Westminster Hall, grieving for his good friend and cabinet colleague, Air Secretary Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson...
Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Secretary of State for the British Air Ministry, lately wrote: "Another disaster like that which befell the Shenandoah, would delay development for many years." He had ridden on the Shenandoah just before an Ohio thunderstorm tossed, twisted and tore her to disaster (TIME, Sept. 14,1925). Great Britain was then planning her R-100, which made a troubled round-trip between England and Canada this summer (TIME, Aug. 11), and her R-101. Lord Thomson had then commented: "If the best minds in England can devise anything to make dirigible flying absolutely safe, these ships will...
Killed. Brig.-General Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Baron Cardington, 55, Secretary of State for the British Air Ministry; Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation for the Air Ministry and its Director of Air Organization and Controller-General of Equipment during the War; Major George Herbert Scott, Commander of the R-34, first dirigible to fly the Atlantic ocean (July 1919); with 44 others in the R-101 disaster over France...
...General Sir William Birdwood, the famous commander of the Anzac (Australian-New Zealand Army Corps) Division in the War, was transferred from command of the Northern Army, promoted to the rank of Field Marshal and appointed Commander-in-Chief in India. It is the first time in history that an officer has been promoted to the supreme military rank on appointment as the military head of British India...