John Cowe MCINTOSH

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MCINTOSH, John Cowe

Service Number:	1327
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Field Ambulance
Born:	Lumsden, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, February 1892
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Aviator
Died:	Airplane crash, Pithara, Western Australia, 28 March 1921
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Presbyterian CA 201A
Memorials:	Bridgetown Memorial Park

World War 1 Service

30 Dec 1914:	Involvement Private, 1327, 4th Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ajana embarkation_ship_number: A31 public_note: ''
30 Dec 1914:	Embarked Private, 1327, 4th Field Ambulance, HMAT Ajana, Fremantle

John Crowe McIntosh

Lieutenant John Cowe McIntosh was born in Scotland in 1892, and having emigrated to Western Australia, enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in 1914. He served in the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps on Gallipoli and in France, and was promoted Corporal. He transferred to the Australian Flying Corps to undertake flying training at Oxford in the United Kingdom. McIntosh was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) in April 1919. Rather than return to Australia with other elements of the AIF by ship, McIntosh joined forces with Lieutenant Ray Parer to enter the Australian Government`s andpound;10,000 air race from England to Australia. Although the race was won by Ross and Keith Smith in December 1919, McIntosh and Parer continued with their adventure. Despite great difficulties and obstacles, they became the first airmen to fly a single-engine aeroplane from England to Australia. The epic journey took 208 days and McIntosh and Parer were each rewarded with a 500 pound cheque and an Air Force Cross. McIntosh was giving joy-rides and flying displays to locals at Pithara, Western Australia on 28 March 1921 when tragically, his single-engined De Havilland aeroplane crashed. It was the first fatal air disaster in Western Australia. He was 29 years of age. The scene of the crash was renamed McIntosh Park.

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