ters on its side--_The World's Appetiser_. It
could be seen from some height in the air, and it helped the pilots of
the squadron, during the retreat from Mons, to identify their own
transport.

The names of the officers of the Royal Flying Corps who went to France,
the great majority of them by air, deserve record. They were the first
organized national force to fly to a war overseas. The following is
believed to be a complete list up to the eve of Mons, but it is not
infallible. Officers and men were changed up to the last minute, so that
the headquarters file, having been prepared in advance, is not
authoritative. The squadron war diaries are sometimes sketchy. Even when
surviving pilots set down what they remember, the whole war lies between
them and those early days, and their memory is often fragmentary. The
following list is compiled, as correctly as may be, from the diary of
Lieutenant B. H. Barrington-Kennett (a careful and accurate document),
the war diaries of Squadrons Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5, which were kept in
some detail, the headquarters' records, and the reminiscences of some of
the officers who flew across or who travelled with the transport.

HEADQUARTERS

Brigadier-General Sir David Henderson, K.C.B., D.S.O.; Commander,
Royal Flying Corps.
Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Sykes, 15th Hussars; General Staff Officer,
1st Grade.
Major H. R. M. Brooke-Popham, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light
Infantry; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General.
Captain W. G. H. Salmond, Royal Artillery; General Staff Officer, 2nd
Grade.
Lieutenant B. H. Barrington-Kennett, Grenadier Guards; Deputy
Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General.

_Attached._

Captain R. H. L. Cordner, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Captain C. G. Buchanan, Indian Army.
Lieutenant the Hon. M. Baring, Intelligence Corps.
2nd Lieutenant O. G. W. G. Lywood, Norfolk Regiment (Special Reserve);
for Wireless duties.

NO. 2 SQUADRON

_Squadron Commander._

Major C. J. Burke, Royal Irish Regiment.

_Flight Commanders._

Captain G. W. P. Dawes, Royal Berkshire Regiment.
Captain F. F. Waldron, 19th Hussars.
Captain G. E. Todd, Welch Regiment.

_Flying Officers._

Lieutenant R. B. Martyn, Wiltshire Regiment.
Lieutenant L. Dawes, Middlesex Regiment.
Lieutenant R. M. Rodwell, West Yorkshire Regiment.
Lieutenant M. W. Noel, Liverpool Regiment.
Lieutenant E. R. L. Corballis, Royal Dublin