The names of the officers of the Royal Flying Corps who went to France, the great majority of them by air, deserve record. They were the first organized national force to fly to a war overseas. The following is believed to be a complete list up to the eve of Mons, but it is not infallible. Officers and men were changed up to the last minute, so that the headquarters file, having been prepared in advance, is not authoritative. The squadron war diaries are sometimes sketchy. Even when surviving pilots set down what they remember, the whole war lies between them and those early days, and their memory is often fragmentary. The following list is compiled, as correctly as may be, from the diary of Lieutenant B. H. Barrington-Kennett (a careful and accurate document), the war diaries of Squadrons Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5, which were kept in some detail, the headquarters' records, and the reminiscences of some of the officers who flew across or who travelled with the transport. HEADQUARTERS Brigadier-General Sir David Henderson, K.C.B., D.S.O.; Commander, Royal Flying Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Sykes, 15th Hussars; General Staff Officer, 1st Grade. Major H. R. M. Brooke-Popham, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General. Captain W. G. H. Salmond, Royal Artillery; General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade. Lieutenant B. H. Barrington-Kennett, Grenadier Guards; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General. _Attached._ Captain R. H. L. Cordner, Royal Army Medical Corps. Captain C. G. Buchanan, Indian Army. Lieutenant the Hon. M. Baring, Intelligence Corps. 2nd Lieutenant O. G. W. G. Lywood, Norfolk Regiment (Special Reserve); for Wireless duties. NO. 2 SQUADRON _Squadron Commander._ Major C. J. Burke, Royal Irish Regiment. _Flight Commanders._ Captain G. W. P. Dawes, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Captain F. F. Waldron, 19th Hussars. Captain G. E. Todd, Welch Regiment. _Flying Officers._ Lieutenant R. B. Martyn, Wiltshire Regiment. Lieutenant L. Dawes, Middlesex Regiment. Lieutenant R. M. Rodwell, West Yorkshire Regiment. Lieutenant M. W. Noel, Liverpool Regiment. Lieutenant E. R. L. Corballis, Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Lieutenant H. D. Harvey-Kelly, Royal Irish Regiment. Lieutenant W. R. Freeman, Manchester Regiment. Lieutenant W. H. C. Mansfield, Shropshire Light Infantry. Lieutenant C. B. Spence, Royal Artillery. Captain A. B. Burdett, York and Lancaster Regiment. Captain A. Ross-Hume, Scottish Rifles. Lieutenant D. S. K. Crosbie, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Lieutenant C. A. G. L. H. Farie, Highland Light Infantry. Lieutenant T. L. S. Holbrow, Royal Engineers. 2nd Lieutenant G. J. Malcolm, Royal Artillery. _Supernumerary._