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:''For the British Army officer who wrote under the pseudonym Charles Edmonds, see Charles Carrington (British Army officer) Air Vice-Marshal Charles Humphrey Kingsman Edmonds CBE DSO RAF (20 April 1891 – 26 September 1954) was a decorated British naval aviator during World War I and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Edmonds served aboard the seaplane carrier HMS Ben-my-Chree during the Gallipoli Campaign. On 12 August 1915, flying a Short 184 seaplane, he made history by launching the first ever aerial torpedo attack on a Turkish merchant ship. It subsequently sank, although it had already been hit by the British submarine HMS E14. Five days later, he successfully attacked another Turkish ship, the first to have been sunk entirely by this method.〔Flying boats & Seaplanes: a History from 1905, Stéphane Nicolaou, Bay View Books Ltd 1998 ISBN 1-901432-20-3 p.54〕 ==References== *(Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation - Air Vice Marshal C H K Edmonds ) *(The Perse School - Air Vice Marshall C H K Edmonds ) 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Edmonds」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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