Francis Stewart Briggs | |
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_when_cadets_at_Oxford_in_1916.jpg) Edgar Johnston and Frank Briggs (on right) when cadets at Oxford in 1916 | |
| Born | 1897 |
| Died | 1966 |
| Service/ | Royal Flying Corps |
Francis Stewart Briggs (18 September 1897 – 21 July 1966) was a pioneering Australian aviator. Frank Briggs learnt to fly with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. During the Peace Conference in 1919 he flew delegates between London and Paris and was the personal pilot of Australia's Prime Minister, Billy Hughes. On return to Australia, Briggs flew with C.J. De Garis[1] and in 1922 joined "Jimmy" Larkin's "Australian Aerial Services" (AAS) company, headquartered at Hay, New South Wales. Frank Briggs married Miriam Carter[2] in Hay on 3 August 1926. Later he joined the Shell oil company, taking charge of a new aviation department in Perth.
- ^ Mitchell, Ernest Lund, "The first aeroplane to land in Western Australia from the Eastern States on Belmont Racecourse at 1 pm, 2 December 1920", State Library of Western Australia,. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ^ Briggs, Francis Stewart, "Photograph of Miriam Carter (c. 1924)", Wikimedia Commons, 18 June 2014. Retrieved 2014-06-18.