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Lt. William Stobart
Royal Flying Corps 29 Squadron
from:Bromham Hall, Bedford
(d.24th Aug 1916)
Lieutenant W. Stobart served with the 10th (Service) Battalion Durham Light Infantry and Royal Flying Corps. William Stobart was the second son of Frederick William and Margaret Stobart of Bromham Hall, Bedford. He entered the School in 1908, left in 1911, and went on to Jesus College, Cambridge. He rowed in his College boat in the Lent Races of 1914, when it went Head of the River, and in the College Eight in the final of the Thames Cup at Henley in the same year.
When War broke out, he was in Canada, employed in the Winnipeg branch of the Bank of Montreal, but immediately returned to England, and obtained a Commission, in September 1914, in the Durham Light Infantry. He went to the Front in France in May, 1915. He was wounded on 8th of September 1915, and again on 26th of September 1915 in the Ypres Salient, and was then invalided home.
He joined the Royal Flying Corps in April 1916. He entered a week later than the rest of his Class, but passed out first, getting his Wings on 24th of June 1916 and immediately joined the No.29 Squadron, R.F.C. in France. He was again slightly wounded on 3rd of July 1916 but remained on duty, and was killed in action on 24th of August 1916 aged 21. His Commanding Officer wrote of him: Ever since he has been under my Command, I have found him an excellent and most gallant officer.
