Philip William Lilian Broke-Smith
Philip William Lilian Broke-Smith
1912 Gamma, the airship which set down on Lindfield Common on April 20, 1912 from Farnborough airfield. On board were six members of the Royal Flying Corps under the command of Captain P. Broke-Smith, adjutant and chief instructor with the Corps. The trip was a family affair in the end – Captain Broke-Smith took the crew to visit his father-in-law Admiral Guy Twiss at Lindfield House for breakfast
1954 'Brig. P. W. L. Broke-Smith, holder of No. 2 airship pilot's licence' [1]
1957. Reminiscence was the keynote of the Lighter-than-air Reunion, held in London last Friday. In the chair was Brig. P. W. L. Broke-Smith, who served under the celebrated Col. J. E. Capper in the operation of Army balloons and kites early in the century and, subsequently, the development of airships at Farnborough from 1906 onwards; [2]