Peter Legh
From Graces Guide
Flight Commander Peter Legh, R.N.A.S.
1896 Born
1914 Flying certificate at British Caudron Flying School, Hendon
WWI: He was wounded in France in 1917
Worked testing machines for the British Aerial Transport Co.
1919 Flying a single seater fighter (built to military specification, that could not used for or altered to civilian or commercial purposes), he attempted a height record from the company's grounds at Willesden but was killed jumping/falling from a burning plane at East Finchley.[1][2]
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