Lindsay, Sub. Lt. Robert Edmund, Royal Air Force
His widowed mother lived at 12 St Fort Road, Woodhaven. He had two brothers, and a sister who died as a child. He was initially in the infantry, and was severely wounded, then subsequently joined the Royal Flying Corps. In April 1918 the RFC merged with the Royal Naval Air Service to become the Royal Air Force.
He died in Edzell Military Hospital from typhoid fever and pneumonia on 6th December 1918, aged 26, and is buried at Vicarsford Cemetery. His death certificate states that he died at Fettercairn Aerodrome. This was a training aerodrome used in WWI, the site of which would eventually become part of the massive American air base after WWII.
Robert is our only World War I casualty in the Air Force.
Poppy made by P7, Wormit School.
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1918Place
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