French aviator Roland Garros.
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- French airman Roland Garros is shot down by a member of the German Railway Protection Guard during a patrol mission over Flanders. Garros is captured and interned in a POW camp. Germans shoot down French pilot Roland Garros
- George Edgar Lockie enlists. George is commemorated on the Centenary of WWI in Orange Honour Roll; he would be killed in action in Belgium on 7 June 1917.
- Royal Flying Corps pilot Lanoe Hawker attacks the German Zeppelin sheds at Gontrode in Belgium, destroying a brand-new shed and shooting down a nearby observation balloon. Hawker is awarded the Distinguished Service Order for the action. The Germans soon cease to use Gontrode as an airship base.
