- Flew S.E.5s in the Royal Flying Corps and received the Military Cross.
- Was also one of the founders of BBC Radio.
- His wartime aircraft was S.E.5 A4853.
- Was the last surviving WWI Ace.
- Worked as a reporter for the Daily Mail in 1956.
- Helped establish the Chinese Air Force in the 1920's and set up a Peking-Shanghai air service using Vickers aircraft.
- Briefly under contract to Paramount as a screenwriter in the late 1930's.
- First deputy director of the BBC.
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