On 9th December 1917 this RNAS Redcar Flying School aeroplane was wrecked on landing at Redcar aerodrome and the pilot sustained injuries.

Pilot - F/Lt Harold L'Estrange Tyndale-Biscoe. Injured.

Harold Tyndale-Biscoe was born on 21st October 1892 in Srinager, India where his father, Canon Cecil Earle Tyndale-Biscoe was a British missionary at the time. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge gaining an MA. he enlisted for RNAS service on 11th July 1915 and was taught to fly at the Grahame-White flying school at Hendon, London gaining his Aviator's Certificate on 15th October 1915 (Cert.No.1881). His service file states he was serving in the Dardanelles between January and September 1916 though gives no indication of which unit this was with. He arrived at RNAS Redcar in September 1916. On 21st November 1916 he was in Longhorn N5037 when it crashed at Redcar and on 9th December 1917 he was in DH-6 B2699 when it crashed at Redcar (and was injured). He served as a flying instructor at the RNAS Flying School at Redcar until May 1918, transferring to the RAF on it's formation in April 1918. He married in Redcar Church on 25th May 1918. He was transferred to the Unemployed List on 14th April 1919. Little is known about him in the immediate post-WW1 period but given his Indian connections it is likely that he return to India. In April 1934 he was a flying instructor with the Madras Flying School and on 1st October 1934 he flew an Avro Commodore from Heston to Madras, India for use by the Rajah of Vizianagram. Flight Magazine of the day states that he was about to join the flying staff of Tata, India at that time. Two websites list him as living in Burma and working with the Forest Department there, and also living in New York. He died in 1969 but where?