A List of Southern Africans in the Royal Air Force During World War One
1914-1919

By
Ross Dix-Peek


The following List contains 744 names, of the Approximately 2000 – 3000 Southern Africans who served in the R.F.C.,R.N.A.S. and the R.A.F. during World War One. They served with great distinction and many paid the ultimate price. They included South African-born Captain A.W. Beauchamp-Proctor, with 54 victories, and a recipient of the Victoria Cross; South African-born Samuel Kinkead, who was the R.A.F.s top-scorer during the Russian Campaign of 1919, with between five and ten victories; and Rhodesian-born Lieutenant D.G. “Tommy” Lewis, who was the last man to be shot down by the Legendary Baron Von Richthofen, the “Red Baron”, and survived. It was also a South African, namely Lieutenant-General J.C. Smuts who would found the Royal Air Force, bringing about the amalgamation of the RFC and the RNAS, which resulted in the formation of the R.A.F. on the 1 April 1918. Some would later attain air-rank in the R.A.F. including AVM Sir C.J. Quinton- Brand, R.A.F. ; AVM Sir Leslie Oswald Brown; ACM Sir W.L. “Dingbat” Saunders; A/M Sir L.KH. Slatter; A/M Sir T.W. Williams; AVM E.A.B.Rice; AVM A.P.Ritchie; AVM C.E.H. Allen and Air- Commodore, C.W. Busk. The record of these southern African airmen is truly remarkable, and helped add great lustre to the annals of the Royal Air Force itself.


Abbott, Trenley;
Adams, H.S. (Bfn);
Albu, W.G.;
Alexander, A.F.;
Alexander, S.C.R.;
Alger, G.C.*;
Allen, C.E.H;
Allen, V.W.;
Allen, W.F.;
Allpass, S.R.;
Andas, L;
Anderson, I.D.;
Anderson, K.V.;
Anderson, Leonard S.;
Anderson, R.W.L.*;
Anderson, W.M. (Rhodesia);
Andrews, J.W.*;
Armstrong, C.;
Armstrong, D’U. V.;
Armstrong, T.A.;
Arnot, W.;
Aronson, J.A.;
Aronson, J.G.;
Aserman, D.;
Atkinson, W.R.;
Baartram, H.W.L.;
Bain, J.J.;
Baker, A.H.;
Baker, A.R.*;
Baldwin, C.L.*;
Bales, F.O.;
Bar[r]on, H.K.;
Barr, E.D.;
Bartlett, A.F.;
Bartlett, M.*;
Barton, C.B. ;
Baumann, M.O.*;
Bayley, F.G.*;
Bayley, Gordon*;
Beachcroft, William Fortescue*;
Beauchamp-Proctor, A.W. ;
Beck, C.A. (RNAS);
Behn, R.C. Air Mechanic (RNAS)*;
Bell, D.;
Bell, P.H.;
Bell, W.D.M.;
Bellin, G.W.;
Bellingham, F.R.;
Benjamin, Maurice A.;
Beninfield, Hugh;
Bennetts, E.A. (RNAS)*;
Berrington, M.T.;
Bertram, C.R.;
Bettington, A.F.W. (RNAS);
Betts, A.G.;
Betts, G.C.;
Betts, R.V.;
Biccard, E.E.;
Blackburn, G.F.;
Blacklaws, J.;
Blair, J.;
Blake, A.W.;
Blight, H.E.;
Blyth, E.J.*;
Blythe, E.;
Blythe, W.;
Boag, A.;
Boardman, P.H.*;
Bonalla, A.J.;
Borcherds, Claude (George, C.P.);
Borrowman, J.J.;
Bosman, Jan Daniel;
Boult, J.;
Bowles, F.C.;
Bown, Stanley Norman (Seapoint, CT);
Bradford, G.W.B.*;
Bradley, F.I.;
Brand, C.J.Q.;
Brandon, A.F. (RNAS)*;
Brandon, E.T.C.*;
Brandon, R.;
Breach, W.T.;
Brent, J.R.;
Brett, F.W.;
Brindley, V.G.*;
Brink, J.H.;
Brodziak, P.H.;
Brown, L.O. (R.N.A.S.);
Brown, T.A.;
Browning, S. (Rhodesia);
Brown, V.D. (N. Rhodesia);
Brownlee, W.T. ;
Bryant, A.;
Buchanan, A.N.*;
Buckeridge, G.D.;
Budd, F.;
Bullen, Keith B.(C);
Burger, M.G.S.;
Burningham-White, W.;
Burt, A.H.;
Burton, C.L.;
Busk, Clifford Westly (Uitenhage);
Bye, L.;
Campbell, C.J.;
Campbell, G.;
Campbell, H.W.;
Campbell, Ian D.*;
Campbell, N.C.S.;
Campbell, J.;
Canning, S.;
Carnegie, B.J. (S. Rhodesia);
Carpenter, M.A. K.;
Carter, C.G.;
Carter, Lionel;
Caspereuthus, Rheinhold (Tamboors Kloof);
Chadwick, J.W.;
Chambers, -;
Christie, Percy;
Clark, C.G.;
Clark, H.;
Clark, S.;
Clarke, A.V.;
Clarke, W.G.;
Clayton, T.L.;
Clementz, D.M.;
Clifford, Ivor (Qumbu, Transkei);
Clisdale, -;
Cloete, Dirk;
Cock, H.T.;
Cohen, Rowan;
Coleville, A.V.;
Cook, N.R. (RNAS);
Cooper, C.E.G.;
Cottle, J.;
Cotton, R.S.;
Corrie, Mac;
Court, C.A.;
Cowan, D.G.(Douglas?);
Craig, A. Knott ;
Cragg, A.;
Croudace, Harold (Rhodesia)*;
Crowe, E.J.;
Creed, G.S.;
Cribb, A.G.;
Cross, H.S. (S. Rhodesia);
Cruickshanks, Albert Harrower;
Cummings, W.R.;
Cunningham, Val (P.E.);
Curlewis, Ivan (Pta) ;
Dainty, N. (S. Rhodesia);
Dales, J.A.;
Dalley, G.;
Dalrymple-Clark, D.S.;
Daniel, A.H.;
Daniel, H.;
Darrell, John (C.T.);
Davie, Ross (Prieska);
Davie, Tom (Prieska);
Davey, F.J.;
Davies, A.S.J.;
Davies, I.G.;
Davies, K.B.;
Davies, R.Q.;
Davis,D.;
Davis,G;
Davis,R.J.G.;
Davison,H.F.;
Day, J.;
De Beer, F.W.;
De Beer, N.V.;
de Bruyn, R.;
de Waal, R.C.;
Deenik, Jack;
Deeper, J.H.;
Dendrino, S.;
Dick, I.;
Dickson, W.;
Donald, A.W.;
Donald, R.B.;
Douglas, Arthur*;
Douglas, Roderick;
Dowell, P.J.;
Dowling, W.;
Downard, V.V.;
Douglas, R.;
Draper, M.E.;
Driver, H.W.;
Driver, John O.S. “Jack” (S. Rhodesia);
Duffus, L.;
Duk, Frederick A.;
Duncan, J.W.;
Dunlop, D.C. (S. Rhodesia);
Dunning, E.H.;
Dunningham, H.A.;
Dunsdon, P.L.;
Durrant, Harold c. (Kensington, Jhb);
Dymant, F.;
Edmonds, E.P.P.;
Edmonds, V.S.;
Edmunds, O.I.;
Edmunds, T.L.;
Edwards, N.B.;
Elsworth, J.C. (S. Rhodesia);
Emanuel, Stanley Victor;
Emmett, Edwin Cheere;
English, C.R. (Mechanic);
Epstein, M.G.;
Eskoll, L.J.;
Evans, H.B.;
Exley, G.;
Eyre, (S.Rhodesian)*;
Falck, J.R.;
Farquarson, W.;
Faure, M.;
Fellowes, C.D. (S. Rhodesia);
Ferreira, J.P.;
Findlay, J.P.;
Finlay, R.;
Finlayson, A.G.;
Finlayson, Robert (Kimberley);
Firbank, G.B.J.;
Fisher, George (RNAS);
Fleming, I.G.;
Fletcher, H.M.;
Forbes, D.T.;
Forbes, J.H.;
Forbes, N.J.;
Ford,H;
Forrest, L.J.;
Frame, G.T.;
Frames, N. W.(RNAS)*;
Frank, C.;
Fraser, I.;
Fraser, J.C. (P.E.);
Frayne, C.W.;
Frayne, Ormond (Pta);
Frean, R.W.;
Froneman, E.E.;
Fuhr, H.R.;
Gadd, M.E.;
Gair, J.S.W.;
Galloway, L.C.;
Garlake, J.;
Gasson, C.B.;
Gateley, L.B.;
Geerdts, D.W.;
George, H.B. (Rosebank);
Gibbs, S.H.;
Gibson, V.B.;
Giemre, J.F.;
Gilfillan, A.W.*;
Gilson, A.I.*;
Giovanetti, A.H.;
Giovanetti, B.;
Giovanetti, A.H.*;
Girdlestone, H.W.*;
Given-Wilson, G.;
Glasse, E.S.*;
Glorney, E.E.;
Goller, G.M.;
Goodbrand, W.H.;
Goodwill, E.A.*;
Gordon, V.;
Gordon-Davis, C.;
Graham, R.L.*;
Grant, L.S.;
Gray, A.T. (RNAS)*;
Gray, C.E.P. *;
Gray, J.C.;
Gray, J.J.E.;
Greathead, A.H.;
Greathead, J.H.*;
Greathead, W.R.;
Green, J.C.;
Green, O.P.S.W.;
Greenwood, E.;
Grey, W.M.R.;
Grinstead, Sydney John (Observatory, CT);
Griffin, E.R.M.;
Griffiths, F.W.;
Grove-Spiro, Stanley (Wynberg, C.T.);
Gubbin, J.R.F.*;
Guiney, R.;
Hahn, B.D.L.;
Hancock, R.S. (Bfn);
Hangle,-;
Hamilton, R.V.;
Halse, C.H.*;
Halse, Stanley Seward;
Hare, Edward. J.*;
Hargrave, W.G.*;
Harington, R.;
Harley, V.;
Harran, F st. P.*;
Harries, A.N.;
Harries, W.T.*;
Harrington, J.R.*;
Harris, A.H.;
Harris, D.;
Harris, G.;
Harrison, A.H.;
Harrison, C.P. (S. Rhodesia);
Harrison, C.S.;
Harrison, F.S.;
Harrison, F.T.;
Harrison, T.S.;
Hartlett, A.F.;
Harvey, -;
Havanagh, J.W.;
Hawtrey, J.J.A.*;
Hayne, Edwin Tusnell*;
Head, W.L.;
Heather, H.G.;
Helbert, B.;
Hele-Shaw, H.R.*;
Hemming, A.S.;
Hemming, W.N.*;
Henderson, Eric*;
Hewitt, R. ;
Heyman, W.A.C.;
Higham, H.D.;
Hill, K.G.;
Hill, S. Norman (Jhb);
Hiscock, F.H.;
Hockey, G.W.;
Hodges, Albert Rowland Cortis*;
Hofmeyr, Roland (Gardens);
Holland, C.;
Homan, H.B.*;
Hook, P.C. (S. Rhodesia);
Hope, G.C.;
Hopkins, -;
Howe, P.F.;
Hudson, R.J.;
Hug[h]es , C.P.R.;
Hughes, E.P.*;
Hugo, N.J.B.;
Hulley, E. (S.Rhodesia);
Hunter, C.J. Gordon (Koffiefontein);
Hutson, D.B. *;
Hutton, A.P.;
Hutton, S.B.;
Ingram, B.;
Irwin, H.O.;
Iverach, P.N.;
Iverach, R.L.;
Jackson, O.F.D.;
Jacot, E. *;
Jardine, D.G.B.*;
Jaynes, V.F.;
Jeffcoate, F.;
Jeffreys, H.W.;
Jeppe, F.A.*;
Joffe, W.*;
Johnson, D.S.*;
Johnson, D.T.;
Johnson, E.;
Johnson, E.L.;
Jones, A.D.R.;
Jones, Douglas;
Joyce, C.G.*;
Joyce, P.S.*;
Judd, W.B. (Transvaal);
Judd, D.S.;
Judd, W.B.;
Judson, D.S. (S. Rhodesia);
Katzin, F.N.;
Kavanagh, J.W.*;
Keddy, T.;
Kellow, W.;
Kelly, C. Air Mechanic*;
Kelly, V.T.;
Kernick, G.H.;
Kerr, D. McC.*;
Kerr, J.F.M.;
Kidd, C.O.D.;
Kidd, P.L.;
Kiddie, A. Cameron;
Kincaid, C.H.;
King, A.G.J.;
Kinkead, Samuel Marcus (R.N.A.S.);
Kinkead, T.C.*;
Kilroe, V.;
Kinmont, G.;
Kirk, P.;
Kirkpatrick, H.J.L.;
Kirsten, J.F.P.;
Kirtley, V.C.;
Knobel, F.H.;
Knoll, W.J.K.*;
Kotze, J.;
Lambson, N.;
Latham, Edgar Retief*;
Laughton, H.P.W.* ;
Lawson, Chandos Frederick;
Lawson, G.E.B.;
Leal, George*;
Leggat, Arthur (Turffontein);
Leighton, W.H.;
Lepin, P.;
Lester, C.J.F.;
Levi, B.L.;
Levin, H.H.;
Levy, A.F.;
Levy, J. ;
Lewin, M.S.;
Lewis, D.G. (S. Rhodesia);
Lewis, S.;
Lewis-Roberts, A.O.;
Liddell, J.H.R.*;
Lindley, B.L.*;
Lindsay, George Kenyon;
Lindup, E.;
Lister, Roy (Harrismith & E.L.);
Livingstone, A.F.;
Lloyd, C.C.*;
Lloyd, G.L. (S. Rhodesia);
Lockett, C.W.;
Locke-Waters, E.;
Logan, A.B.;
Lomax, A.K. ;
Lomax, R.H.N.;
Lotter, R.G.;
Lotz, A.T.;
Louw, J.C.;
Lowe, G.O. (Jhb);
Lowenstein, J.C.*;
Lownds, L.;
Lownds, R.H.*;
Lundie, E.L.;
Luyt, H.V.C.;
Maasdorp, C.R.*;
MacDonald, H.O.;
MacDonald, H.R.*;
MacKay, J.I.;
MacKenzie, J.D.;
MacRae, A.V.;
Mahon, C.M.A.*;
Mail, James Douglas;
Makepeace, Roy Victor Nash;
Malet, F.A.R. (RNAS)*;
Malroy, H.;
Mansell, T.W.;
Marks, L.T.*;
Marquard, Leo (Winburg);
Marsh, Z.S.*;
Martin[e]ssen , K.E.;
Massey-Hicks, M.B.;
Matcham, Ivan (Bfn);
Maxwell, Francis Severn;
May, Bowen (S. Rhodesia);
Maytom, S.C.;
McBlaine, G.;
McCarthy, A.B.;
McCarthy, B.L.;
McClelland, H.;
McClure, Sam. (Gardens, Cape Town);
McCubbin,-;
McDonald, D.P.;
McGee, W.R.*;
McIntosh, Arthur Carter;
McIntyre, Charles Grant;
McIntyre, G.;
McJannet, Arthur William *;
McKechnie, Donald (Harrismith);
Meacham, Alan (RNAS) (Newlands, CT);
Meintjies, H.;
Meintjes, N.A.;
Mellish, J.W.S.;
Mellor, C.B.;
Mendelssohn, L.;
Meredith, C.W.;
Meyler, H. ;
Michell, Lewis;
Middleton, G.N.*;
Middleton, J.R.*;
Midgely, G.G.;
Millar, E.R.W.;
Miller, A.M.;
Miller, D.J.M.;
Mitchell, V.M. (Pmb);
Moberly, G.S.;
Moody, B.H.;
Moon, E.R.;
Moore, T.C.;
Moore, W.G.;
Mord, H.*;
Morgan, A.B.*;
Morgan, J.S.;
Morgan, L.;
Morgan, T.P.;
Morgan, W.;
Morison, J.S.*;
Morris, M.;
Morrisby, W.J.;
Morton, Reginald (Sea Point, CT);
Mulroy, H.J.*;
Murray, G.L.*;
Murray,R*;
Murray, W.R.;
Myburgh, J.A.*;
Myers, F.M.*;
Myers, P.B.*;
Naish, J.P.*;
Nangle, H.C.M.;
Nathan, C.F.;
Naylor, W.H.;
Nelson, F.W.;
Nesbitt, Athol;
Neser, F.C.*;
Newberry, J.D.;
Newby, W.;
Nicholls, E.J.;
Nicholson, O.H.;
Nicholson, W.S.;
Nicol, E.L.;
Nicolson, F.;
Nightingale, F.;
Niven, W.A. Mackie;
Norgarbe, G.;
Norgarbe, H.;
Norton, B.L.;
Norton, N.J.;
O’Beirne, A.J.L.;
O’Connor, O.;
Oliver, C.K.;
Orpen, H.C.M.;
Osborne, F.L.;
Osborne, H.;
O’Shea, H.A.;
Osman, F.L.;
Oxenboll, P.C.;
Palmer, Cecil R. (Rondebosch, C.T.);
Palmer, J.;
Papenfus, -;
Papson, A.P.;
Parker, K.;
Parritt, -;
Paterson, C.;
Payne, L.A.;
Pender, W.G.(S. Rhodesian)*;
Pennington, K.M.;
Penny, G.A.;
Phear, N.C.;
Phillips, J.P.;
Phipson, H.G.S.;
Pierce, R.G.*;
Pilditch, G.;
Pith[e]y, C.R.;
Polkinghorne, G.T.;
Pople, W.;
Prentice, A.K.;
Prentice, A.R.;
Prentice, J.;
Pyott, Ian Vernon Jeffrey;
Probart, W.A.B.;
Probit, J.H.;
J.L. Probit (C.T.);
Procter, H.O.;
Prideaux, E.R.;
Pudney, R.E.;
Rainier, G.;
Ramsbottom, J.;
Randles, L.;
Raymond, L.;
Redler, H.B.;
Reed, A.E.;
Reeler, W.L.;
Redmond, W.G.;
Reid, J.D.;
Reynolds, E.G.;
Rice, E.A.B.;
Rimer, J.C.*;
Rimer, F.A.;
Ritchie, A.P.;
Roberts, S.T. Chief Mech. (S. Rhodesia);
Roberts, T.;
Robertshaw, C.A.;
Robinson, A.;
Rodda, G.T.;
Rodger, H.A.;;
Ross, C.G.;
Rowe, J.L.;
Romyn, I.O.;
Roxmouth, V.C.;
Royston, Cyril;
Rutherford, L.E.;
Rynhoud, Arthur (P.E. & C.T.);
Sancroft-Baker, A.H.;
Saunders, E.M.;
Saunders, W.H.L.;
Savage, G.R.;
Savage, W.L.;
Scaife, G.;
Schoch, Walter Eugene;
Scholtz, E.;
Sch[o]molle, J.G.;
Scott, M.H.;
Seabrooke, J.P.;
Searle, R.J.;
Sellar, B.;
Sephton, Stanley*;
Shackell, C.J.;
Sharpe, M.;
Sharwood, Alec Redvers;
Shearer, J.A.;
Sheldon, A.V. (S. Rhod);
Shell, W.H.;
Sheppard, Urlyn (Jhb);
Sherlock, C.;
Sherwell, R.;
Simmons, A.;
Slarke, C.W.;
Slatter, L.H. (R.N.A.S.);
Smallwood, P.F.H.;
Smallwood, T.S.;
Smith, Clifford P.;
Smithers, E.L.;
Smulian, Barend ;
Smuts, Neil Reitz;
Schoeman, H.P.;
Solomon, F.;
Solomon, S.;
Sondheim, W.*;
Sonnenberg, Melville Charles*;
Snyman, G.D.;
Spencer, H.;
Spicer, E.D.;
Spilhaus, J.A.;
Spiro, S.G.;
Spranger, Norman;
Sproat, C.M.;
St. Leger, V.;
Stacey, D.W.;
Stahel, A.M.;
Stainbank, Raymond Henry;
Starfield, B.*;
Stead, I.O.;
Stead, W.L.;
Steenberg, E.C.;
Steenekamp, P.A.;
Steward, A.A.;
Stewart, A.;
Steytler, E.D.;
Stockenstroom, L.A.;
Stokes, R.C.;
Straw, L.;
Straughan, C.F.;
Struben, Henry Marinus;
Struthers, J.B. (S. Rhodesia);
Strydom, J.B.;
Stuart,C.;
Stuart-Reeve, H.B.;
Style, C.S.;
Sutton, J.G.;
Sutton, W.K.;
Swift, S.R.;
Taggart, R.G.;
Tansen, A. ;
Tardugno, R.;
Tasker, W.T.B.;
Tatham, I.M.*;
Taylor, C. st. C.;
Taylor, J.H.;
Thaites, W.A.;
Thiron, W;
Thomas, F.W.H. ( Rhodesia);
Thomas, N.;
Thompson, C.R.;
Thompson, J.;
Thomson, C.J.;
Thomson, W.J.;
Thornhill, A.E.;
Thornton, A.C.;
Tplson, Wilfred (P.E.);
Towne, L.F.;
Townsend, R.G.R.;
Truscott, R.R.;
Trusson, A.;
Tudhope, P.M.;
Tully, Henry C.;
Turner, A.;
Turner, B. ;
Turner, R.G.;
Valentine, J. *;
Van Coller, -;
Van der Berg, J.;
Van der Hoff, C.L.;
Van der Merwe (OFS);
Van der Riet, Ernest Franklin;
Van der Riet, J.;
Van Ryneveld (Worcester);
Van der Spuy, K.R.;
Van Rijnveld, J.P.;
Van Staden, L.G.;
Venter, C.J;.
Vigne, J.C.;
Viney, T.E. (RNAS)*;
Viljoen, N.;
Vorster, W.L.;
Wagner, E.T.;
Wagner, J.A.;
Wallace, G.P.;
Wallace, K.H.;
Wallack, K.H.;
Walters, H.A.;
Warren, L.;
Watt, C.D.;
Way, F.V.;
Weakley, E.G.K.;
Weatherby, R.W.;
Weil, L.M.B.(RNAS)*;
Weiner, Rudolf Alexander (C.T.);
Westhofen, P.;
Westwood, W.G.;
Webb, Arthur Sutton;
Webb, J.R.;
Wheeler, Alan G. (RNAS);
White, A.S.;
White, C.S.;
Whitty, J.L.;
Wickens, J.;
Wienekowitz, H.;
Wiener, L de V.;
Wiener, Rudolf Alexander;
Wilby, G.G.;
Williams, L. (S. Rhodesia);
Williams, P.;
Williams, T.M.;
Williams, T.S.;
Wilson, F.B.;
Wilson, Herbert (C.T.);
Wilson, Holford W.*;
Wilson, R.;
Wisdom, G.E.C.;
Wise, O.S.;
Wood, A.H.;
Wood, C.C.;
Wood, G.N.;
Wright, B.N.;
Wright, E.F.;
Wylde, T.E.;
Yates, J.A.;
Yates, J.J.;
Yell, R.H.;
Young, Denton Muir (Stellenbosch);
Young, P.H.;

* Died
N. Rhodesia – Northern Rhodesia
S. Rhodesia – Southern Rhodesia
R.N.A.S. – Royal Naval Air Service