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Group Captain Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees VC OBE MC AFC RAF (31 July 1884 – 28 September 1955) was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was credited with eight confirmed aerial victories, comprising 1 enemy aircraft captured, 1 destroyed, 1 'forced to land' and 5 'driven down'. Rees and his gunner, Flight Sergeant James McKinley Hargreaves, were the only two airmen to become aces flying the earliest purpose-built British fighter airplane, the Vickers Gunbus.

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  • Lionel Rees
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  • Group Captain Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees VC OBE MC AFC RAF (31 July 1884 – 28 September 1955) was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was credited with eight confirmed aerial victories, comprising 1 enemy aircraft captured, 1 destroyed, 1 'forced to land' and 5 'driven down'. Rees and his gunner, Flight Sergeant James McKinley Hargreaves, were the only two airmen to become aces flying the earliest purpose-built British fighter airplane, the Vickers Gunbus.
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  • 1903(xsd:integer)
Birth Date
  • 1884-07-31(xsd:date)
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death place
  • Nassau, Bahamas
Name
  • Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees
Birth Place
  • Caernarfon, Wales
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death date
  • 1955-09-28(xsd:date)
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  • Group Captain
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  • United Kingdom
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  • World War I
  • World War II
placeofburial
  • Nassau War Cemetery, Bahamas
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  • Group Captain Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees VC OBE MC AFC RAF (31 July 1884 – 28 September 1955) was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was credited with eight confirmed aerial victories, comprising 1 enemy aircraft captured, 1 destroyed, 1 'forced to land' and 5 'driven down'. Rees and his gunner, Flight Sergeant James McKinley Hargreaves, were the only two airmen to become aces flying the earliest purpose-built British fighter airplane, the Vickers Gunbus. Rees also had a keen interest in archaeology. While flying from Cairo to Baghdad in the 1920s, he took some of the earliest archaeological aerial photographs of sites in eastern Transjordan (now Jordan), and published several articles in Antiquity and the journal of the Palestine Exploration Fund. He is considered a father of the archaeological studies of this remote area, and a pioneer of aerial archaeology. He was also an accomplished sailor.
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