S.E.5a D8436 near Doncaster.
On 2nd August 1918 this No.47 Training Depot Station was being flown in that area around Doncaster where it was based and while pulling out of a dive fabric became torn from front and upper wing surfaces. The pilot made an emergency landing in a field of wheat in the Doncaster area but overturned.
Pilot - 2Lt Patrick Maurice Tidmarsh USAAS / RAF. Slightly injured.
Patrick Tidmarsh was an American volunteer and would have undergone initial training in Canada prior to sailing for the UK. He was from Seattle, Washington, USA. He was granted a commission on 16th May 1918 possibly while still in North America. He was posted to No.41 Training Squadron on 6th July 1918. There is a deliberate space on his service file and the next entry stated that he was posted to No.47 Training Depot Station at Doncaster on 18th August 1918 but I suspect that this was when he returned there after being injured a couple of weeks earlier in this crash. No.41 Training Squadron disbanded and became part of No.47 Training Depot Station. He eventually served with No.85 Squadron but was placed on the Unemployed List on 7th May 1919. He was probably born on 28th April 1900 and died on 29th April 1991 in Arizona, USA.
