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However, in early 1912 he transferred to the Air Battalion, taking up duties as a pilot in March.

On his return, Sugiyama was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and commander of the 2nd Air Battalion in December 1918.

The commander of the Air Battalion was Major Sir Alexander Bannerman.

In 1911 the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers was the first heavier-than-air British military aviation unit.

It absorbed the nascent naval air detachment and also the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers.

In 1911 the Corps formed its Air Battalion, the first flying unit of the British Armed Forces.

Brooke-Popham was attached to Air Battalion Royal Engineers during its manoeuvres of 1911, after which he decided to learn to fly.

An order was issued on 28 February 1911 for the formation of the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers effective 1 April the same year.

In April 1911, when the School of Ballooning was reorganized to become the Air Battalion, Bannerman served as its commandant.

The Royal Engineers' Air Battalion had pioneered experiments with wireless telegraphy in airships and aircraft before the RFC was created.

Kirby subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps (which had absorbed the Air Battalion) and he was commissioned as an Equipment Officer.

The Air Battalion was the forerunner of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force.

Imperial Japanese Army aviation gains a degree of independence for the first time when it is organized as the Air Battalion of the Army Transport Command.

The Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers became the Military Wing of the Royal Flying Corps a month later on 13 May.

The Royal Flying Corps had been born out of the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers and was under the control of the British Army.

Just before the Air Battalion became the Royal Flying Corps, Bannerman took flying lessons in order to gain his Royal Aero Club certificate.

The Air Battalion Royal Engineers (ABRE) was the first flying unit of the British Armed Forces to make use of heavier-than-air craft.

After obtaining his Royal Aero Club certificate in March 1912, Longcroft was attached to the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers at his request.

In 1911, whilst serving as a captain in the Air Battalion, Burke wrote the first air power article to be published in the Royal United Services Institute Journal.

Five years later, in April 1911, he was gazetted with an honorary commission as a lieutenant, appointed a quartermaster, and posted to the newly formed Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers.

In 1911, No 2 Company of the Air Battalion Royal Engineers was established at Larkhill, the first flying unit of the armed forces to use aeroplanes as opposed to balloons.

One of the first batch of aircraft purchsed by the British Army's Air Battalion Royal Engineers (the precursor to the Royal Flying Corps) was a Nieuport IV.

He then commanded Fighting Squadron 200, was an English teacher at the Military School of Meteorology, organized the 5th Air Battalion and was commander of the Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron.

Tokugawa led the 2nd Air Battalion, was Commanding Officer of the 1st Air Regiment, and was General Officer Commanding the Army Aviation Corps three times through the 1920s and 1930s.

On 19 August 1911 Maitland was attached to the Royal Engineers' Air Battalion and later that year he was appointed Officer Commanding No. 1 Company, Air Battalion.