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Lionel Rees
Group Captain Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees (31 July 1884 – 28 September 1955) was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was credited with eight confirmed aerial victories, comprising one enemy aircraft captured, one destroyed, one "forced to land" and five "driven down".〔''Above the Trenches'', p. 316〕 Rees and his gunner, Flight Sergeant James McKinley Hargreaves, were the only two airmen to become aces flying the earliest purpose-built British fighter airplane, the Vickers Gunbus.
Rees also had a keen interest in archaeology. While flying from Cairo to Baghdad in the 1920s, he took some of the earliest archaeological aerial photographs of sites in eastern Transjordan (now Jordan), and published several articles in ''Antiquity'' and the journal of the Palestine Exploration Fund. He is considered a father of the archaeological studies of this remote area, and a pioneer of aerial archaeology.〔"Aerial Archaeology in Jordan", David Kennedy and Robert Bewley, ''Antiquity'' 83, no 319, pp. 69–81〕 He was also an accomplished sailor.
==Early life==
Rees was born at 5 Castle Street, Caernarfon, in 1884 the son of Charles Herbert Rees, a solicitor and honorary colonel in the Royal Welch Fusilers and his wife Leonara.〔 Rees attended Eastbourne College before entering the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in 1902.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lionel Rees )〕 He was commissioned in on 23 December 1903 into the Royal Garrison Artillery and was posted to Gibraltar.〔 Promoted to lieutenant in 1906 he moved to Sierra Leone in 1908 and in May 1913 was seconded to the Southern Nigeria Regiment.〔
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