Captain Bertram Dickson (21 December 1873 - 28 September 1913) was a pioneer Scottish airman and the first British serviceman to qualify as a pilot. His exploits in the air, watched by Winston Churchill and Lord Kitchener, indirectly led to the creation of the Royal Air Force. The following May, Dickson was seconded for service with the Foreign Office. By 1908 Dickson was in the Ottoman Armenian city of Van serving as the military attaché and vice-consul.