Evelyn Walter Copland Perry (4 December 1890 – 16 August 1914) was a pioneer British aviator and one of the first flying instructors in England. He was killed on 16 August 1914 in a flying accident while serving with the
Royal Flying Corps
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in France, making him the first
British Army officer to die in France during
World War I.
Evelyn Walter Copland Perry was born on 4 December 1890, the son of
Walter Copland Perry, the noted author and barrister and his wife Evelyn née Stopford.
On 12 September 1911, Perry gained his
Royal Aero Club certificate on the
Barber "Valkyrie" and became the 130th person in the United Kingdom to learn to fly.
He was then employed as a
Royal Aircraft Factory pilot and carried out a considerable amount of flying at
Brooklands on a
Burgess-Wright.
In 1912, he worked with
Thomas Sopwith at his flying school at Brooklands, where amongst others he trained
Hugh Trenchard.
With the outbreak of
World War I, Copland Perry was commissioned as a
second lieutenant
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. He flew to France with the
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and was killed in a flying accident on 16 August 1914, making him possibly the first officer to die in the Great War.
Copland Perry was buried in the St. Acheul Cemetery in
Amiens.
References
External links
thePeerage.com – Evelyn Walter Copland Perry
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1890 births
1914 deaths
Royal Flying Corps officers
British military personnel killed in World War I