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478:, France, Major Rees, whilst on flying duties, sighted what he thought was a bombing party of our machines returning home, but were in fact enemy aircraft. Major Rees was attacked by one of them, but after a short encounter it disappeared, damaged. The others then attacked him at long range, but he dispersed them, seriously damaging two of the machines. He chased two others but was wounded in the thigh, temporarily losing control of his aircraft. He righted it and closed with the enemy, using up all his ammunition, firing at very close range. He then returned home, landing his aircraft safely. 514: 33: 462:. Long range fire from three other Germans did not discourage Rees from closing on it; it emitted a hazy cloud of smoke from its engine from the 30 rounds Rees fired into it and it fled. Rees then single-handedly went after five more Germans. A bullet in the thigh paralysed his leg, forcing him to temporarily break off his assault. As the shock of the wound wore off, he was able to pursue the German formation leader, which was leaving after dropping its bomb. He fired his 409:
On 28 July he attacked and drove down a hostile monoplane despite the main spar of his machine having been shot through and the rear spar shattered. On 31 August, accompanied by Flight-Sergeant Hargreaves, he fought a German machine more powerful than his own for three-quarters of an hour, then
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Hargreaves, he sighted a large German biplane with two machine guns 2,000 feet below him. He spiralled down and dived at the enemy, who, having the faster machine, manoeuvred to get him broadside on and then opened heavy fire. Despite this, Captain Rees pressed his attack and apparently
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Rees gave up the futile chase, and returned to base. Once landed, he calmly asked for steps so he could deplane. Once seated on the aerodrome grass, he had a tender fetched to take him to hospital. The valour of his actions earned him the Victoria Cross. Its citation reads:
510:. On 1 August 1919 he resigned his commission with the Royal Garrison Artillery and took a permanent commission in the newly formed Royal Air Force as a lieutenant-colonel. In 1920, Rees was presented with a sword and the freedom of Caernarfon. 578:
When the Second World War broke out, Rees returned to the United Kingdom from the Bahamas and once again joined the RAF. He relinquished his rank of group captain in January 1941 at his own request and was granted the rank of
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No. 6015 at 0555 hours. His attempt to join a formation of "British" machines brought an attack from one of the Germans. He shot up the attacker, hitting its fuselage between the two aircrew. As it dived away, Rees attacked a
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after the RAF moved away from the Army rank structure, Rees became deputy director in the Air Ministry directorate of training and in January 1925 he became an additional air aide-de-camp to the King.
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forces. He was credited with eight confirmed aerial victories, comprising one enemy aircraft captured, one destroyed, one "forced to land" and five "driven down". Rees and his gunner, Flight Sergeant
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empty. In frustration, he drew his pistol but dropped it into his DH.2's nacelle. Meanwhile, the German two-seater pulled away above him. The German formation was shattered and scattered.
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before he retired from the RAF in 1931 with the rank of group captain. In 1933, he sailed single-handedly across the Atlantic from Wales to Nassau in the Bahamas in a
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succeeded in hitting the enemy's engine, for the machine made a quick turn, glided some distance and finally fell just inside the German lines near Herbecourt.
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in May 1926 and given command of the RAF Transjordan and Palestine in October 1926. He had a keen interest in archaeology, and while flying on the
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He convalesced for a while due to his injuries from the 1 July action, and went on a War Office mission to the United States, becoming a temporary
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Rees was 31 years old and on detached service from the Royal Garrison Artillery to the Royal Flying Corps on Flying Duties as a temporary
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Rees returned home to the Bahamas and on 12 August 1947, aged 62, he married Sylvia Williams, a young local woman. They had three children.
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returned for more ammunition and went out to the attack again, finally bringing the enemy's machine down apparently wrecked.
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By this time he had claimed one aircraft captured, one destroyed, one "forced to land" and five "driven down".
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route during this period, he took some of the earliest archaeological aerial photographs of sites in eastern
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with No. 11 Squadron in mid-1915, earning a reputation as an aggressive pilot and an above average marksman.
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in the 1920s, he took some of the earliest archaeological aerial photographs of sites in eastern
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The War in the Air: Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force
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in No. 32 Squadron when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
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On 21st September, 1915, when flying a machine with one machine gun, accompanied by
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For conspicuous gallantry and skill on several occasions, notably the following: β€”
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Rees died at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau on 28 September 1955 from
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in 1906, he moved to Sierra Leone in 1908 and in May 1913 was seconded to the
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Rees returned to England in October 1926 to take command of the RAF Depot at
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in recognition of valuable flying services. In 1919, Rees was appointed an
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Rees returned to England at the end of 1915, where he took command of the
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in October 1914. In early 1915 he took command of the newly formed
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and in July they moved to France. He first saw action flying the
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Rees also had a keen interest in archaeology. While flying from
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in May 1917. For the remainder of hostilities Rees commanded a
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Against the Odds – The Life of Group Captain Lionel Rees, VC
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Shores, Christopher; Franks, Norman; Guest, Russell (1990).
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Sweetman, John, 'Rees, Lionel Wilmot Brabazon (1884–1955)’,
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Royal Air Force officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross
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in January 1913. By 1913–14, Rees was attached to the
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In June 1920, he took command of the flying wing at
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Caernarfon
Carnarvonshire
Nassau, Bahamas
British Army
Royal Air Force
Group Captain
Royal Garrison Artillery
Royal Flying Corps
No. 11 Squadron RFC
No. 32 Squadron RFC
First World War
Western Front
Battle of the Somme
Second World War
Victoria Cross
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Military Cross
Air Force Cross
Mentioned in Despatches
Group Captain
VC
OBE
MC
AFC
flying ace
Victoria Cross
Commonwealth
James McKinley Hargreaves
Vickers Gunbus

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