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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-05-25 human Rosanne Walker updated 2025-11-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003962b.htm person Smith Ross Macpherson KBE MC DFC AFC AACR2 4 December 1892 13 April 1922 Place of Birth Semaphore, South Australia, Australia Place of Death Weybridge, Surrey, England Aviator (Sir) Ross Macpherson Smith and his brother Keith were the earliest of the long distance flyers. They won the Australian government-sponsored England-Australia Race in 1919, flying a Vickers Vimy aircraft.

Born Adelaide, 4 December 1892. Died Weybridge, near London, 13 April 1922. KBE ca 1920. Warehouseman, G.P. Harris Scarfe & Co., Adelaide; enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force August 1914; served in Gallipoli and Egypt; Australian Flying Corps August 1917-1918, receiving the Military Cross twice and the Distinguished Flying Cross three times; flew from England to Australia with his brother Keith (qv) in 28 days, November-December 1919; planned to fly around the world in a Vickers Viking amphibian in 1922, but died while test-flying the aircraft when it spun into the ground.

1914 1916 Military service - First World War. Lieutenant, Australian Imperial Force 1916 1918 Military service - First World War. Captain, Royal Flying Corps and Australian Flying Corps 1917 1917 Award - Military Cross (MC) 1918 1918 Award - Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) 1919 1919 Award - Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) - in recognition of valuable service rendered to Aviation by successfully flying from England to Australia 1919 1919 Award - Air Force Cross (AFC) Smith, Keith Macpherson (1890 - 1955)

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