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Revision as of 20:54, 7 December 2018
Wing Commander Neville Florian Usborne, (27 February, 1883 – 21 February, 1916) served in the Royal Navy.
Life & Career
Usborne's skills in French earned him the Ryder Memorial Prize as a Sub-Lieutenant.
Usborne died alongside De Courcy Wyndor Plunkett Ireland in a wartime experiment to launch a fighter plane from airship AP.1 as a defence against Zeppelin attacks.
See Also
Bibliography
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