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Eustace Loraine : ウィキペディア英語版 | Eustace Loraine
Eustace Broke Loraine (3 September 1879 – 5 July 1912) was a pioneer British aviator and the first Royal Flying Corps officer to be killed in an aircraft crash. Eustace Loraine was the first child of Rear-Admiral Sir Lambton Loraine, 11th Baronet and his wife Frederica Mary Horatia (née Broke). His younger brother Percy was born in 1880. He was the great grandson of Rear Admiral Sir Philip Broke a distinguished naval officer.〔"The Accident." Times (England ) 6 July 1912: 8. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 2 May 2014.〕 ==Service in Africa== Loraine was gazetted as a Second Lieutenant on 5 July 1899 with the Grenadier Guards.〔 He was promoted to Lieutenant in May 1900 a month after his arrival in South Africa where he served until to May 1902 when he returned to England.〔 He served as adjutant, Grenadier Guards from July 1905 until September 1906.〔 Promoted to Captain in July 1907 he was selected for the West African Frontier Force in October 1908.〔 He later served in Nigeria on the headquarters staff in Lagos and as a section commander on Colonel Trenchard's 1907 / 1908 expedition to the Munshi tribe. In 1909 whilst Loraine was still in Nigeria, reports reached him of Louis Blériot's flight across the English Channel. This news stirred Loraine's curiosity and he decided to find out more about flying.
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