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Flight Lieutenant Herbert Carmichael "Bird" Irwin, AFC (26 June 1894 – 5 October 1930) was an Irish aviator and athlete. During World War I, Irwin joined the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), where he commanded non-rigid airships. After the war, the "tall sensitive Irishman"〔Masefield, p. 71.〕 commanded larger rigid airships, initially for the Royal Air Force (RAF) and later on secondment to the (civilian) Royal Airship Works as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme. Both before and after the war, Irwin also had a successful career as a middle- and long-distance and cross-country runner, and he represented Great Britain at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. Irwin's career as an aviator culminated in his command of the airship R101, the largest airship in the world at the time.〔''Report of the R.101 Inquiry'', p. 7.〕 He was killed along with another 47 people when it crashed in northern France on a flight from Britain to India. == Early life == Herbert Carmichael Irwin was born in Dundrum, County Dublin, on 26 June 1894, the second of four sons born to Thomas Frederick Irwin, a solicitor, and his wife Elinor Emily Lindsay Carroll, a daughter of the rector of Dundrum. He was baptised in Taney Parish on 1 August.〔 Irwin's father and two uncles, Herbert Irwin and Major General Sir James Murray Irwin, were noted members of the Dublin University Rowing Club, and one of his grandmothers was a sister of Major-General Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes.〔 His godfather was Sir Thomas Myles, a well-known Dublin surgeon, Home Rule campaigner and, later, gunrunner for the Irish Volunteers. Irwin attended St. Andrew's College, Dublin, from August 1909 to June 1913. 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「Herbert Carmichael Irwin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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