2nd Lieutenant Parker Symons of Moonta, South AustraliaĬaptain Baker was an accomplished combat pilot.Lieutenant Arthur 'Jack' Palliser of Ulverstone, Tasmania.Captain Thomas Baker of Adelaide, South Australia.
The last Australian airmen to die in the war were: Only 3 years later, Australian airmen were piloting the deadliest machines of the war.
In the desert between Nasiriyeh and Basra, Merz and his passenger were murdered while trying to fix the plane. His unarmed Caudron G.3 was prone to engine problems. When Lieutenant George Merz was let down by a faulty plane on, he became the first Australian airman to die in the war. A significant technological advance in World War I was the adoption and modification of aeroplanes for military use.Įarly aircraft flown by Australian Flying Corps crews were unsuited to operations in the Middle East.
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