Stanley Goble
Air Vice Marshal Stanley James Goble, CBE, DSO, DSC was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force. During World War I, Goble flew fighters on the Western Front with the British Royal Naval Air Service. He became an ace with ten victories, commanded No. 5 Squadron, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and thedistinguished Service Cross. Goble came to national attention in 1924 when he and fellow RAAF pilot Ivor McIntyre became the first men to circumnavigate Australia by air.
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Air Vice Marshal Stanley James Goble, CBE, DSO, DSC was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force. During World War I, Goble flew fighters on the Western Front with the British Royal Naval Air Service. He became an ace with ten victories, commanded No. 5 Squadron, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and thedistinguished Service Cross. Goble came to national attention in 1924 when he and fellow RAAF pilot Ivor McIntyre became the first men to circumnavigate Australia by air. As Chief of the Air Staff at the onset of World War II, he clashed with the Federal Government over implementation of the Empire Air Training Scheme. He stepped down as leader of the RAAF in early 1940, and spent the rest of the war in Ottawa as Air Liaison Officer to Canada. He died in 1948 at the age of fifty-six, two years after retiring from the military. He was one of four sons to an Australian father, George, and an English mother, Ann. He apparently received little schooling, and began his working life as a clerk with the Victorian Railways at the aged of sixteen. By twenty-three he was, like his father, a stationmaster, and a footballer with Brunswick in the Victorian Football Association. He had three brothers already on active service, and decided to travel to England at his own expense and enlist in the British armed forces. He flew Caudron reconnaissance-bombers and Sopwith Pup fighters.
In 1916, during the latter part of the Battle of the Somme, he flew both Pups and Nieuport fighters. His unit supported the British Fifth Army as it bore the brunt of the German Spring Offensive, and he had to evacuate his airfield when it was shelled by advancing enemy artillery. Twice mentioned in despatches in the newly formed Royal Air Force, he finished the war as an ace. Although forced to crash crash himself, he was subsequently recognised by a commendation circulated to all RNAS combat units. In the 1930s, he led No. 2 Group RAF, and on an exchange posting to Britain in the 1920s, led No 2 Squadron RAF. He wrote later that only applicants of the finest physiques were considered suitable for the first contingent of Australian troops at the beginning of the World War I after failing the stringent medical criteria. He also wrote that he had only three hours’ solo flying experience when he was posted across the Channel to Dunkirk, flying Pup and Airco DH. 4-seat light bombers. He later became a flight commander, then flight commander in June 1917, then commander of No. 5 Squadron in December 1917. In April 1918, he became a major in the new Royal Army’s Royal Flying Corps on 1 April 1918. The same month he won the French Croix de guerre later that month. In February 1917 he was promoted to flight lieutenant on 1 October, and won the DSO on 17 February 1917.
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