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William Ernest Staton : ウィキペディア英語版 | William Ernest Staton
Air Vice-Marshal William Ernest Staton CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC & Bar (27 August 1898 – 22 July 1983) was a British airman who began his career as a First World War flying ace credited with 26 victories. He was transferred to the Royal Air Force on its creation and remained in the RAF during the inter-war years. During the Second World War he served in England and pioneering the bombing technique of using pathfinders to mark targets. He then served in the Far East before becoming a Japanese prisoner of war. After the war he returned to Great Britain and the RAF where he reached air rank and captaining the British Olympic Shooting Team.〔http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Staton.htm〕〔http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/staton.php〕 ==Early Service== William Ernest Staton began military service as a soldier in the Artists Rifles,〔 a volunteer battalion popular with graduates of Britain's public schools and universities. About two thirds of the 15,000 men who passed through the battalion in World War I became officers somewhere in the British military.〔http://www.familyrelatives.com/search/search_artist_rifles.php〕 Staton passed from the ranks of the Artists Rifles to a cadet's position in the Royal Flying Corps. He had been commissioned a Temporary Second Lieutenant in the Artists Rifles on 4 May 1917. He became a Flying Officer with effective rank of Second Lieutenant〔http://www.rafweb.org/Glossary.htm〕 on 21 September 1917. Staton was posted to No. 62 Squadron at the end of flying training early in 1918.〔
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