(17 November 1893 – 29 October 1945) was a British army officer, general manager of the Asiatic Petroleum Company and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
He made a number of reconnaissance flights over German lines, but on 6 April 1917 his aircraft was brought down and he was taken prisoner of war.
[1] On 24 July 1918, he and 28 other officers escaped from the Holzminden camp through a tunnel which had taken 10 months to dig.
He made his way to the Dutch frontier in the clothes of a prisoner of war and then returned to England.
[2] He received the Military Cross from King George V at Windsor for his reconnaissance work during the Battle of Somme in 1916.