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In memoriam: Henry Dotterel

Flight Journal,  Aug 2003  by Patterson, Dan

Henry Dotterel-WW I's last surviving combat pilot-died in January at the age of 106 in a veterans' hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He trained with the Royal Naval Air Service. On his second operational flight, an engine failure caused him to crash, and he was hospitalized for several months.

He requalified as a fighter pilot and returned to operations in 1918 with the Royal Flying Corps, Squadron 208, flying Sopwith Camels. He served throughout the War.

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