Desmond Arthur, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish aviator in the Royal Flying Corps
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About Desmond Arthur
- Lieutenant Desmond Arthur (1884–1913) was an Irish aviator in No.
- 2 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps.
- Following his death in Scotland's first fatal aircraft accident; a government inquiry was launched to investigate the circumstances surrounding the crash.
- The first inquiry found him responsible, but a later investigation exonerated Arthur.
- His name is most famously connected to sightings of a ghost believed to haunt the airfield at RAF Montrose in Montrose, Angus, Scotland.
- It is considered one of the most well-known ghost stories of the First World War.
- Desmond Arthur was the first Irishman to be killed in an aircraft accident.
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