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Previously Yorkshire Light Infantry

Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France

April 1917 was a bad month for the Royal Flying Corps during which they lost 245 aircraft and had 207 aircrew killed. ‘Bloody April’, as it became known was a result of the aerial war during the Battle of Arras. To support the ground offensive the Royal Flying Corps deployed 25 squadrons, totalling 365 planes which did not fare well against a smaller but more efficient and better trained German air force whose Albatros fighter plane surpassed anything the British had.

On 2nd April, 1917 a line patrol of  57 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps engaged six single seater German Albatros aircraft south east of Arras. One hostile machine fell in flames and a second went down apparently out of control but a British FE2d fighter, serial number A5151, was shot down. Both the pilot and the navigator, Alfred Henry Margoliouth, were killed.