GB 0099 KCLMA Percival - PERCIVAL, Edgar Wikner ([1898]-1984)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Percival Created 1919-1920 Collection (fonds) 1 file

Born in [1898] in New South Wales, Australia; educated at Sydney Technical College and Sydney University; served in 7 Australian Light Horse and 60 and 11 Sqns, Royal Flying Corps and RAF, 1914-1918; served as Air Ministry approved test pilot on flying boats, seaplanes and land planes; founder, chairman, managing director and chief designer, Percival Aircraft Limited; designed Saro-Percival Mail Plane, 1930, Percival Gull, 1931-1932 and Percival Mew Gull, 1933; won many air races and trophies, both national and international, and set a number of aviation records; served in Reserve of Air Force Officers, 1929-1939; Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 1939-1945; founder member of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators; died in 1984.

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1986.

List of stations on the Tomsk, Sabaikal, Omsk and Chinese Eastern Lines compiled in connection with British Military Mission in Irkutsk, USSR, 1919, with annotations made by the Commanding Officer of the mission while retreating from the Bolsheviks, 1919-1920. Passed to Percival for use on a planned round-the-world flight.

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Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
English

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm

RAF Museum, Hendon and Australian National Museum, Canberra also hold material relating to Percival.

Mar 1997 Air transport Diplomacy Eastern Europe Foreign relations International relations Irkutsk Irkutskkaya Oblast Military missions Omsk Omskaya Oblast Percival , Edgar Wikner , ? 1898-1984 , aviator Railway transport Russian Federation Sabaikal Tomsk Transport Transport infrastructure USSR

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1986.

List of stations on the Tomsk, Sabaikal, Omsk and Chinese Eastern Lines compiled in connection with British Military Mission in Irkutsk, USSR, 1919, with annotations made by the Commanding Officer of the mission while retreating from the Bolsheviks, 1919-1920. Passed to Percival for use on a planned round-the-world flight.

1 file

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

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English

RAF Museum, Hendon and Australian National Museum, Canberra also hold material relating to Percival.

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm

• Engels