THE KING’S HOUSEHOLD

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 253, 22 July 1936, Page 9

THE KING’S HOUSEHOLD

Several Appointments (Received July 21, 5.5 p.m.) Ixmdon, July 20. King Edward’s household appointments include Flight Lieutenant E. 11. Fieldon, His Majesty's pilot, as “Captain of the King's Flight.” He is thus the first occupant of a position which has been newly created owing to the King’s frequent Use of the aeroplane. Sir Morton Smart, consultant to the London Clinic for Injuries, has been appointed manipulative surgeon, creating a new office in the medical household. Major T. E. G. Nugent, who accompanied the Duke and Duchess of York ou their Australian and New Zealand tour in 1927, has been appointed Controller of the Lord Chamberlain's Department.

Flight Lieutenant Feildcn’s career is one of the romances of the Royal Air Force. On attaining his majority in 1924 he joined the Royal Air Force with a short service commission, and in 1929, when his term of active service was up, he was transferred to the reserve of officers in the usual way, but his ability had demonstrated itself in tbe air force, so that at the end of his five years he had reached the rank of flight, lieutenant and bad gained the Air Force Cross before passing out. He bad no difficulty in securing civil employment, and almost immediately after leaving the R.A.F. became pilot to Captain the Rt. Hon. F. E. Guest, a former Secretary of State for Air. In July he flew Captain Guest’s entry in the' King's Cup, gaining second fastest time, and two months later, in September, 1929, he was appointed personal pilot to the Prince of Wales, this being the first occasion on which a member of the Royal Family had had an air pilot attached co his establishment. In 1933. he was made Chief Pilot and Extra Equerry to the Prince, and now. before he has'had his 33rd birthday, he is not only personal pilot to the .King of England, but Captain of the King’s Flight. Throughout the R.A.F. and in civil aviation circles he is known as “Mouse’’ Feilden.