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Group Captain Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees, VC, OBE, MC, AFC (31 July 1884 – 28 September 1955) was a Welsh aviator, flying ace, and a 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". Rees and his gunner, Flight Sergeant James McKinley Hargreaves, were the only two airmen to become aces flying the earliest purpose-built British fighter aeroplane, the Vickers Gunbus.

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  • Group Captain Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees, VC, OBE, MC, AFC (31 July 1884 – 28 September 1955) was a Welsh aviator, flying ace, and a 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". Rees and his gunner, Flight Sergeant James McKinley Hargreaves, were the only two airmen to become aces flying the earliest purpose-built British fighter aeroplane, 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. He was also an accomplished sailor. (en)
  • Lionel Rees (Caernarfon, 31 luglio 1884 – Nassau, 28 settembre 1955) è stato un aviatore britannico.Era un asso dell'aviazione gallese insignito della Victoria Cross, il più alto riconoscimento per la galanteria di fronte al nemico che può essere assegnato alle forze britanniche e del Commonwealth delle nazioni. Gli furono attribuite otto vittorie aeree confermate, tra cui un aereo nemico catturato, uno distrutto, uno "costretto ad atterrare" e cinque "abbattuti". Rees e il suo mitragliere, il Flight Sergeant James McKinley Hargreaves, furono gli unici due aviatori a diventare assi che volavano sul primo aereo da caccia britannico appositamente costruito, il Vickers Gunbus.Rees aveva anche un vivo interesse per l'archeologia. Durante un volo dal Cairo a Baghdad negli anni '20, scattò alcune delle prime fotografie aeree archeologiche di siti nella Transgiordania orientale (ora Giordania) e pubblicò numerosi articoli sull'Antiquity (rivista), giornale del Palestine Exploration Fund. È considerato un padre degli studi archeologici di questa remota area ed un pioniere dell'archeologia aerea. Era anche un marinaio esperto. (it)
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  • United Kingdom
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  • No. 11 Squadron RFC
  • No. 32 Squadron RFC
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  • 1931-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • 1902-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • United Kingdom (en)
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  • 1884-07-31 (xsd:date)
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  • Caernarfon, Carnarvonshire, Wales (en)
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  • Lionel Rees c.1918 (en)
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  • 1955-09-28 (xsd:date)
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  • Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees (en)
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  • Nassau War Cemetery, Bahamas (en)
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  • c.1939–1942 (en)
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  • Group Captain Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees, VC, OBE, MC, AFC (31 July 1884 – 28 September 1955) was a Welsh aviator, flying ace, and a 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". Rees and his gunner, Flight Sergeant James McKinley Hargreaves, were the only two airmen to become aces flying the earliest purpose-built British fighter aeroplane, the Vickers Gunbus. (en)
  • Lionel Rees (Caernarfon, 31 luglio 1884 – Nassau, 28 settembre 1955) è stato un aviatore britannico.Era un asso dell'aviazione gallese insignito della Victoria Cross, il più alto riconoscimento per la galanteria di fronte al nemico che può essere assegnato alle forze britanniche e del Commonwealth delle nazioni. Gli furono attribuite otto vittorie aeree confermate, tra cui un aereo nemico catturato, uno distrutto, uno "costretto ad atterrare" e cinque "abbattuti". Rees e il suo mitragliere, il Flight Sergeant James McKinley Hargreaves, furono gli unici due aviatori a diventare assi che volavano sul primo aereo da caccia britannico appositamente costruito, il Vickers Gunbus.Rees aveva anche un vivo interesse per l'archeologia. Durante un volo dal Cairo a Baghdad negli anni '20, scattò alcun (it)
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