Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men (117 page)

Evening Standard
483

Examiner
173, 462

Eyre, Bill 160

Fairbanks Aeroplane Corporation 233

Faith in Australia
494, 503, 548, 553–4, 564

Farman, Henri 43

Farrall, Hubert 465

Fawcett, Bob 195, 198

Federov, Ivan 251, 601

Ferdinand, Archduke Franz 50, 59

Ferris, Lyle 529

Fielding, Reverend G. Morris 460

Fiji 328, 329, 330, 334–6, 339–43, 524, 526

Fiji Times
532

Fitzmaurice, Captain James C. 431

Florence 495

Flyer
11–12, 14

Flyer II
19

Flyer III
25, 31

flying, early attempts

French developments 20, 25–6

implications 21

writing history of 1–2

‘flying machines’

cellular kites 3–4, 5

joysticks 31

propulsion 4–5, 14, 31

rudders 12

stability 55

Foch, Marshal Ferdinand 480

Fokker, Anthony 44, 55–6, 60, 73–4, 124, 146, 160, 230, 254, 278, 291, 430, 431, 443, 452, 453, 454, 534, 550, 591

Fokker Aviatik Gesellschaft 56, 60

Fokker, Herman 44, 55

Fokker planes 94, 124, 230, 233, 234, 244, 286

Fonck, René 97, 246, 247, 254

Fontaine, Charles 37

Forbes, George 565

14-bis Oiseau de Proie
20, 590

4th Divisional Signal Company 69, 88, 92

4th Light Horse Brigade 75, 76, 86

4th Signal Troop 75

Fox Studios 541

France 60, 65

Fraser, George Henry 163

Fremantle 495

French Army 60, 67

Fysh, Hudson 156, 160–1, 164, 167, 169, 170, 178, 179, 186, 209, 212, 215, 238, 239–40, 288, 411, 437, 440, 441, 471–2, 497, 504, 506, 565, 571, 581, 603, 609

Fysh, Nell 238

Gallipoli 72–3, 75, 76, 77, 80, 81, 82–5

evacuations 85–6

Garlick, John 385, 404

Garros, Roland 66–8, 71–3, 550, 591–2

Gascoyne Transport Company 224–8, 236–7, 240, 243, 352, 388

General Motors 587

Gengoult Smith, Sir Harold 528

Geraldton 194, 196, 214

German Army 60, 480

German High Command 73

German Navy 60

German Supreme Army Command 95–6, 136

Germany 60

Glasgow, Elsie 465

gliders 9–10, 12

Hawk
, the 10

Golden Bear
462

Golden Eagle
277

Golden Gate Bridge 536

Gorham, George 157, 161

Göring,
Oberleutnant
Hermann 135, 606

Great Pacific Airways Ltd 496

Great War
see
World War I

Greenwich Mean Time 273

Grenfell 487

Grieve, Navy Lieutenant Commander Kenneth Mackenzie 147–52, 246, 448, 562

Grosvenor House
522, 527, 528

Guardian
(Perth) 241, 266

Guild of Air Pilots and Navigators 484

Gunn, John 210

Guynemer, Georges 106

Haarlem 44, 55

Hammond, J.H. 417–21

Hancock, Bertram 304

Hancock, Captain G. Allan 302–6, 310, 315, 348, 352, 454, 588

Hargrave, Geoffrey 9, 22, 62, 72–3, 74–5

Hargrave, Hilda 9

Hargrave, Lawrence 2–5, 9, 12, 15, 20, 22, 31, 32, 43, 45, 49–50, 61–2, 75, 356–7, 609

Hargrave, Margaret (daughter) 22

Hargrave, Margaret (wife) 22

Hargrave, Nellie 9, 22

Harmondsworth aerodrome 489

Harper, Harry 21, 35, 36

Harper, Locke T. 285, 293

Hart, E.J. 355, 421

Hawaii 324–6, 330, 331

Hawke, Bob 609–10

Hawker de Havilland 593

Hawker Demon biplanes 567

Hawker, Harry 47, 54–5, 78–9, 94–5, 147–52, 160, 190, 246, 448, 543, 552, 562, 583, 593

Hawker, Muriel (née Peaty) 78–9, 94, 148, 149, 150, 190, 543, 593–4

H.G. Hawker: Airman—His Life and Work
593

Hazlitt, Jack 212

Heath, Bertie 385, 403

Hemsworth, Godfrey 546

Henri Farman III
43

Herald
(Melbourne) 356, 384, 385, 409, 418, 508, 554

Hesshaimer, Brigitte 608

Hesshaimer, Marietta 608

H.G. Hawker Engineering 160, 593

Hill, Flight Lieutenant Cedric 456, 457–8

Hilliard, Arthur 242, 358, 402, 408

Hilliard, Bon 242–3, 267, 272, 296, 301, 393, 395, 399, 404, 408, 417, 429, 596

Hilversum
257

Hinkler, Bert 189–90, 298–301, 349, 369, 371, 372, 418, 456, 458, 483–4, 485, 489–90, 492, 495, 528, 583, 594, 609

Hinkler, Frances 189, 594

Hinkler, John 189

Hinkler, Nancy 298–9, 300, 483–4, 490, 495, 594

Hitchcock, Henry ‘Bobby’ 240, 241, 242, 269, 271–2, 358, 370–1, 386, 393, 394–9, 402, 403, 404, 405, 408, 409, 410–11, 413, 414, 416, 420, 425, 426, 429, 439, 475, 542, 589

Hitler, Adolf 537, 606

Hodder, Jack 585

Holden, Captain Leslie Herbert 385, 394, 400, 402, 420, 589

Holder and Stroud 518

Hollywood 541

Holt, Lieutenant Colonel Felton Vesey 217

Honolulu 541, 543

Honolulu Advertiser
328

Hood
216

Hood, Captain George 294, 360, 583, 592

Hood, Clyde 465

Hood, Laura 294, 364, 592

Hoover, President Herbert 452

Hope-Jones, Kenneth 593

Hordern, Lebbeus 220, 228, 229, 356

Hore-Ruthven, Sir Alexander 440

Hotchkiss machine gun 66, 71

Houdini, Harry 40, 45–9, 599–600

Howard, John 241

Howell, Cedric E. 163

Hudson River 610

Hue, Jules 68

Huffman, Torrence 19

Hughes, Geoffrey 287, 409, 420

Hughes, Prime Minister Billy 143–4, 151–2, 156, 166, 183, 196–7, 199, 269

Huntingdon
, SS 437

Hurley, Frank 114

Hutchinson, Palmer 233–4

Hutson, Sir Eyre 337

Immelmann, Max 97

‘Immelmann turn’ 191

Imperial Airways 430, 441, 464, 470, 472, 473, 497, 504, 545, 566, 571, 581

Ince, Thomas Harper 173–4

India 433, 579

Indian Corps 91

Ingleburn Army Camp 68–9, 83

International Commission on Air Navigation (ICAN) 507, 509, 511, 512, 516

Interstate Flying Services 248, 249–50, 258, 369

Ireland 444

Isaacs, Sir Isaac 488

Jagdstaffeln
96

James, Rowland 581

Jeffries, Dr John 253

Johnson, Amy 484, 508, 522, 531

Johnston, Edgar 504, 509, 516, 543, 571

Jones, E.J. 259

Jones, L.J.R. ‘Jack’ 48

joyrides 486–7, 489, 493
see also
barnstorming

Jubilee Flight 547–64

Kaiser Wilhelm II 64

Kalumburu 597

Kangaroo plane 144–5

Kangaroos rugby league team 501

Karachi 430, 457, 578

Katherine 395

Kathleen
469

Kaufman, Jack 539–40

Kay, Sergeant Tommy D. 162–3

Kennedy, Alexander 212–13, 406

Kensington Racing Club 155

King Edward VII 50

King George V 50, 53, 125, 141, 148, 152, 166, 186, 190, 263z, 264, 313, 433, 459, 488, 523, 537, 547

Kingsford, Arthur 29

Kingsford, Catherine
see
Kingsford Smith, Catherine

Kingsford, Phil 221

Kingsford-Smith Air Service Ltd 496, 512, 545

Kingsford Smith, Beris (niece)
see
Stannage, Beris

Kingsford Smith, Catherine (mother) (née Kingsford) 6–8, 17, 18, 19, 30, 51, 62–3, 69–70, 85, 98, 123, 126–7, 146, 184, 200–1, 206, 211–12, 312, 323, 326, 338, 354, 386, 400, 452, 481, 501, 503, 548, 549, 569, 570, 578, 583, 587

Kingsford Smith, Charles Arthur (son) 489, 500, 502, 506, 510, 525, 538, 544, 565, 569, 570, 582, 583, 587, 588, 597

Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles Edward (‘Chilla’, ‘Smithy’)

application to Royal Flying Corps 92

apprenticeship 56

arrest in Turkey 479

barnstorming 176–7, 181–2

birth 6

childhood 7–28

crashes 152–4

death 584

divorce 368

education 50–3, 56

family 6

first marriage 218

first solo flight 103–4

flying, feelings about 102–3

Gallipoli campaign and 82–6

Hollywood, in 180–1

illness 455, 477, 500–3, 573

knighthood 488

medical leave 126–9

mental health 503, 538–9

Military Cross 123, 125–6

motorbike passion 58, 69

move to Canada 17

New Guard and 474

paperwork and 511–17, 574

personality 57, 68–9

pilot training 92–4, 97–8

poem to the
Southern Cross
568

posting to No. 23 Squadron 107–8

promotion to corporal 87

return to Australia from Canada 30, 43

role as flying instructor 136, 142

second marriage 436, 461

‘Smithy’, as 358

stunt flying 180

suits against 358

swimming incident Bondi Beach 23–4

theories of death 585–6

wounding 122–3

Kingsford Smith, Elfreda (sister-in-law) 184

Kingsford Smith, Elsie (sister-in-law) 173

Kingsford Smith, Elsie (sister)
see
Pike, Elsie

Kingsford Smith, Eric (brother) 6, 19, 62, 224, 460, 582

Kingsford Smith, Harold (brother) 6, 18, 29, 159–60, 164, 172, 173, 174, 275–6, 315, 538, 542

Kingsford Smith, Lady Mary (née Powell) 432–4, 435–7, 438, 439, 445, 451, 452, 455, 461–2, 475, 478, 485, 488, 500, 502, 506, 507, 510, 525, 538, 544, 548, 563–4, 565, 566, 567, 570, 576, 577, 578, 580, 582, 583, 584, 587

Kingsford Smith, Leofric (brother) 6, 19, 129, 183, 184, 206–7, 293, 386, 401, 460

Kingsford Smith-Maddocks Aeros Ltd 142

Kingsford Smith, Thelma
see
Corboy, Thelma

Kingsford Smith, Wilfrid (brother) 6, 19, 164, 491, 580