Neville Florian Usborne
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Jump to navigationJump to searchWing 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 submitted a report on German use of Wireless Telegraphy, an extract of which appeared in the Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1907.[1]
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.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1907. Wireless Appendix pp. 63-6.
