On 13th July 1916 this RNAS Flying School aeroplane sideslipped into the ground on take-off from RNAS Redcar and crashed. Damage was severe and as a result the aeroplane was written off. Lt Veal's service file mentions the incident and stated that he was a passenger.
Pilot - FSL Edward Morgan Morgan RNAS. Slightly injured.
Pilot (Passenger) - Lt Richard Minshull Spencer Veal RNAS. Slightly injured.
Edward Morgan Morgan was born on 16th November 1896 at Penmark and later lived at Trevethin Vicarage, Ponty-pool where his father Rev.Edward Morgan B.A. was vicar. He enlisted for RNAS service on 19th July 1915 and was awarded his Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificate (Cert.No.1726) at the RNAS Flying School, Eastchurch on 5th September 1915. He was posted to RNAS Redcar on 21st February 1916 and served there until 18th March 1918 when he was posted to Vendome, France. He was almost certainly a flying instructor at RNAS Redcar. He then transferred to the RAF on formation in April 1918. He was awarded the Air Force Cross, Gazetted on 1st January 1919 and was transferred to the Unemployed list on 23rd September 1919. He possibly died Swindon in 1950.
Richard Veal was born on 16th March 1885 in Brentford, Middlesex. He was elected to be a member of the Royal Aero Club on 6th October 1914 but appears to have served in the Royal Navy during most of 1915 on an armoured car division. He transferred from the RNVR to the RNAS on 10th November 1915 and was posted to RNAS Redcar on 9th March 1916 and remained there until 2nd April 1917. He must not have been at Redcar for flying duties initially as it took him nearly a year to be awarded a Royal Aero Club aviators' certificate (Cert.No.4248) on 2nd March 1917 at RNAS Redcar. He was involved in the crash of Curtiss JN-4 8802 on 13th July 1916 and Longhorn 8922 on 29th June 1917, both at Redcar. In April 1917 he was posted on a Compass course before returning to RNAS Redcar later in the month. He then remained at RNAS Redcar right through to 1st April 1918. He was probably an instructor at RNAS Redcar Flying School by . He was Mentioned in Despatches on 30th April 1918 for his WW1 flying in the second half of 1917. When the RAF formed in April 1918 he transferred and remained in the RAF until being placed on the Unemployed List in June 1919 but appears to have been working for Robert Blackburn at the Olympia Works, Leeds by this time. He features in the marriage index in 1958, marrying in Romsey, Hampshire where he died only five years later.
Curtiss JN-4 8802 was built by Curtiss in Toronto and after shipping to the UK it was delivered to Aircraft Acceptance Park at Hendon on 3rd May 1916, it was then transferred to RNAS Detling on 17th May 1916. It was later transferred to RNAS Redcar, via RNAS Eastchurch where it stopped over night on 19th May 1916. It arrived RNAS Redcar on 21st May 1916 where it joined the RNAS Flying School. After the mishap at Redcar on 13th July 1916 it was assessed, written off and was deleted from stock on 21st August 1916.
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