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Leslie Hamilton
Flying Officer Leslie Hamilton , was a British First World War flying ace credited with six aerial victories. He disappeared while attempting the first non-stop east-west flight across the Atlantic Ocean. His Fokker F.VIIa, named "St. Raphael", was last seen over the mid-Atlantic by oil tanker SS "Josiah Macy".
World War I service.
Hamilton was commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers as a second lieutenant on 12 June 1916. He was promoted to lieutenant on 12 December
Leslie Lang
The Rt Rev Leslie Hamilton Lang 27 May 1889 – 12 March 1974) was the fourth Bishop of Woolwich.
Born on 27 May 1889 and educated at Repton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1915. His first post was at St Mary’s, Portsea after which he was a temporary Chaplain to the Forces, during which conflict he lost the use of his right hand, always afterwards sheathing it in a black glove. When peace returned he was successively : Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop