Distinguished Service Order
Royal Irish Rifles, on attachment to the Royal Flying Corps
Son of the late Walter Calverley
Suggested edit - Peter H (47423563)
'Educated at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey. Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the Royal Irish Rifles as a 2nd Lieutenant on 1 Oct 1914.
Promoted to Lieutenant on 15 Mar 1915.
Temporary/Acting Captain in the Royal Irish Rifles on various dates Aug 1915-Mar 1917.
Awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for services 7 to 16 July 1916 at La Boisselle [London Gazette 25 August 1916].
"For conspicuous gallantry during several days of fighting. He led his company with great dash, and successfully beat off enemy counterattacks. He helped to organize bombing attacks, which broke down the enemy's resistance, and led to the capture of a large number of prisoners".
He transferred into the Royal Flying Corps on 30 Jun 1917 and was posted to 'A' Squadron, Central Flying School, Upavon, Wiltshire.
He was killed in a flying accident, aged 22 while piloting a Sopwith Pup, serial number B5933.
When the aircraft got into a spin and was to low to recover, at Upavon.
He is also commemorated on the Charterhouse School War Memorial in the Charterhouse School Chapel, Charterhouse Road, Godalming, Surrey (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/198189), on the Charterhouse School Roll of Honour (see: https://charterhousewarmemorial.org.uk/Authenticated/Search.aspx) and on the Royal Irish Rifles WW1 Memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Distinguished Service Order
Royal Irish Rifles, on attachment to the Royal Flying Corps
Son of the late Walter Calverley
Suggested edit - Peter H (47423563)
'Educated at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey. Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the Royal Irish Rifles as a 2nd Lieutenant on 1 Oct 1914.
Promoted to Lieutenant on 15 Mar 1915.
Temporary/Acting Captain in the Royal Irish Rifles on various dates Aug 1915-Mar 1917.
Awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for services 7 to 16 July 1916 at La Boisselle [London Gazette 25 August 1916].
"For conspicuous gallantry during several days of fighting. He led his company with great dash, and successfully beat off enemy counterattacks. He helped to organize bombing attacks, which broke down the enemy's resistance, and led to the capture of a large number of prisoners".
He transferred into the Royal Flying Corps on 30 Jun 1917 and was posted to 'A' Squadron, Central Flying School, Upavon, Wiltshire.
He was killed in a flying accident, aged 22 while piloting a Sopwith Pup, serial number B5933.
When the aircraft got into a spin and was to low to recover, at Upavon.
He is also commemorated on the Charterhouse School War Memorial in the Charterhouse School Chapel, Charterhouse Road, Godalming, Surrey (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/198189), on the Charterhouse School Roll of Honour (see: https://charterhousewarmemorial.org.uk/Authenticated/Search.aspx) and on the Royal Irish Rifles WW1 Memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
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