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Royal Naval Air Service 1914-1918

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Royal Naval Air Service WW1

New Zealanders who served with Royal Naval Air Service 1914 – 1918

Name                                      

Captain Harold Beamish

Flight Sub-Lt Thomas Culling

Flight Lt. Samuel Dawson

Captain Euan Dickson

Lieutenant Samuel Hanna

Lieutenant John Macky

Lt. Basil A.N. Wood

  Unit                                         

3 Naval/203 Squadrons

1 Naval Squadron

RNAS Seaplanes

5 & 10 Naval/205 Squadrons

RNAS Armoured Cars

RNAS Armoured Cars

RNAS Armoured Cars

Fate

Ace survived – 11 kills

Ace shot down and killed June 1917  – 6 kills

Killed in an accident  17 September, 1919

Ace survived – 14 kills

Survived

Unknown

Survived

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