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171:, Germany as the oldest child to his parents followed by his sisters Magdalena Augusta Hilda Hamel (21 January 1891) and Dorothea Minna Hamel (February 1893). His youngest sister Anna Elise Bertha Hamel was born in London (6 October 1899). His family moved to England around 1899 to
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583:. He landed there at 9:00am to sleep for two hours, refuel his aircraft and have lunch. He took off for the last time at 12:15pm. A presumed last sighting of him was an aircraft seen flying high over the town of Boulogne at 12:30pm.
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Bleriot monoplane from Boulogne to Wembley. This was the first of 21 cross channel flight that he was to make.
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with one of his sisters as a passenger. The car struck and killed a five-year-old girl called Gladys Storey, who had been playing in the road.
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in 1910 : after observing his first flight Louis Blériot commented that he had never seen a pilot with such natural ability. He obtained
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Unquiet souls : a social history of the illustrious, irreverent, intimate group of
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511:; in 1915 she won ÂŁ1,200 in damages from a newspaper, the
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1094:. No. 40533. London. 26 May 1914. col 5, p. 10.
859:. No. 39863. London. 3 April 1912. col C, p. 8.
416:. Hamel won the race by a margin of just twenty seconds.
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1313:"The Late Mr Gustav Hamel".
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459:In March 1914 Hamel flew to
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1436:by Mark Bostridge (2014)
1139:"The Loss of Mr Hamel".
1068:"Famous Airwoman Dead".
987:Lambert, Angela (1984).
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1341:"Practical Flying".
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1090:"The Lost Airman".
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