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Hamel, Gustav Wilhelm, 1889-1914
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1889-1914
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Hamel, Gustav Wilhelm, son of Gustav Hamel, M. D., M. V. O., of London; b. June 25, 1889; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (A); left Easter 1907; became a pupil at the Blériot flying ground at Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1910; took his pilot's certificate in Feb. 1911; was the first official aerial postman; made his first cross-Channel flight from Boulogne to Wembley Park Oct. 11, 1911, and his first cross-Channel flight with a passenger in 1912; won the first 'Aerial Derby' a flight of 81 miles round London, June 8, 1912, and the second 'Aerial Derby' in the following year; flew from Dover to Cologne with a passenger in four hours and eighteen mins. in 1913; looped the loop fourteen times before the King at Windsor Feb. 2, 1914; author of Flying : Some Practical Experiences (1914); drowned in the Channel while flying from Paris to Hendon May 23, 1914; unm.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from Play 1883 to Election 1960, Volume 3, compiled by J.B. Whitmore, G.R.Y. Radcliffe and D.C. Simpson, Barnet, 1963