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from album: First British Military Pilot, Captain Bertram Dickson 1873 - 1913
Britain's first military airman was Captain Bertram Dickson, Royal Regt of Artillery. In 1910 he learned to fly in France, qualifying on 12th May 1910. In that year he demonstrated arial reconnaisance on Salisbury Plain. This led to the RFC, and the RAF.
picture: Sign in StrathBran, Scotland, 45 miles N. of Inverness, points to Capt. Bertram Dickson's grave
published by: jimobrien
The grave is in a small Burial Ground in a sparsely-populated area, in the North of Scotland. Park off the Garve to Achnasheen road, then walk 200 yards up a steep grassy path to the Burial Ground.
I had never heard of this extraordinary pilot until I travelled on this little-used road in the Scottish mountains, and stopped at the sign. More at: http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/biographies/bertramdickson.html