B.E.2c 2661 at Beverley aerodrome.
On the night of 2nd / 3rd September 1916 some sixteen airships set off with the intention of bombing London. L.22 appears to have either had other orders or had drifted off course significantly, it crossed the Lincolnshire coast at Skegness and head north across Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. A B.E.2c was sent up from 33 (HD) Squadron, RFC based at Beverley but crashed during the night take off at Beverley aerodrome for an anti-Zeppelin patrol; almost certainly in search of L.22. It subsequently dropped a few bombs into fields at Flinton, then crossed the coast heading east at Aldborough.
Pilot - (Acting) Capt Robert Charles Lyon Holme RFC.
Robert Charles Lyon Holme was born on 10th November 1896 and following training at Sandhurst was commissioned into the Somerset Light Infantry in 1914. He was later seconded into the Royal Flying Corps and after training at the British Flying School, Le Crotoy, France was awarded his Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificate (Cert.No.1665). He was awarded the Military Cross, Gazetted on 24th January 1917 (which I have not found details for). Either in or just before July 1917 he was wounded in action. He transferred to the RAF on its formation in April 1918. On 4th October 1922 he was killed when Vickers Vernon J6865 crashed in Iraq. He is buried at what is now called the Ma'asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery, Baghdad, Iraq.