Rothesay Stuart Wortley: Difference between revisions

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1892|1|9|df=yes}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1926|12|29|1892|1|9|df=yes}}

| birth_place = [[Highcliffe Castle]], [[DorsetHampshire]], [[England]]

| battles = First World War I<br/>{{*}}[[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]]

Major '''Rothesay Nicholas Montagu Stuart Wortley''',{{refn|group=note|Both Fox-Davies<ref name="FoxDavies">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/armorialfamilies02foxd#page/1380/mode/2up |title=Armorial families : A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour |first=Arthur Charles |last=Fox-Davies |authorlink=Arthur Charles Fox-Davies |year=1929 |edition=7th |location=London |publisher=[[Hurst & Blackett]] |volume=2 |page=1381 |accessdateaccess-date=1 May 2016}}</ref> and Burkes<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Mosley |editor-first=Charles |title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage |edition=107th |volume=2 |page=2138 |location=Wilmington, Delaware |publisher=Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. |year=2003 |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p5230.htm |accessdateaccess-date=1 May 2016}}</ref> give his birth name as '''Nicholas Rothesay Montagu-Stuart-Wortley'''. However, during his military service the ''[[London Gazette]]'' lists him as '''R[othesay] N[icholas] Montagu-Stuart-Wortley''', which suggests that he may have changed it on enlisting. His books were published under the name '''Rothesay Stuart Wortley'''.}} {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MC}} (9 January 1892 – 29 December 1926) was a British [[World War I]] soldier, [[flyingRoyal aceFlying Corps]] creditedfighter withpilot [[Listand ofa Worldjournalist Warand I aces credited with 6 victories|six aerial victories]]author.<ref name="theaerodrome">{{cite web |url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/stuart_wortley.php |title=Rothesay Nicholas Montagu Stuart Wortley |work=The Aerodrome |year=2014 |accessdateaccess-date=7 August 2014}}</ref>

==Early life and background==

StuartNicholas Rothesay Montagu Stuart-Wortley was born at [[Highcliffe Castle]], [[Hampshire]] (now in [[Dorset]], on 9 January 1892, the first child and only son of Major-General the Honourable [[Edward James Montagu-Stuart-Wortley]], and his wife Violet (née Guthrie).<ref name="FoxDavies"/> He was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and [[Oxford University]],<ref name="theaerodrome"/> winningwhere anhe Honours inread [[History]]. On 25 March 1912 he wasreceived commissioneda commission as a second[[Subaltern lieutenant(military)|Subaltern]] in the [[British Army]]'s [[Hampshire Yeomanry]], of the ([[Territorial Force]]).<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28620 |date=21 June 1912 |startpagepage=4466}}</ref>

==First World War I==

On 5 August 1914, the day after Englandthe [[United Kingdom]] declared war on Germany, Stuart -Wortley was appointed an [[aide-de-camp]] to serve on the personal staff<ref>{{London Gazette |date=28 August 1914 |supp=yes |issue=28885 |startpage=6885 |endpage=6886 |nolink=yes}}</ref> of his father, [[General Officer Commanding]] of the [[46th (North Midland) Division]]. On 12 February 1917 Stuart Wortley was seconded for duty with the [[Royal Flying Corps]],<ref>{{London Gazette |date=1528 JuneAugust 19171914 |supp=yesy |issue=3013428885 |startpagepages=59716885–6886 |nolink=yes}}</ref> and was appointed a flying officer on 12 June.<ref>{{London Gazette |date=3 July 1917 |supp=yes |issue=30166 |startpage=6678 |nolink=yes}}</ref> On 30 June he was promoted to captain, with seniority from 1 June 1916.<ref>{{London Gazette |date=13 July 1917 |supp=yes |issue=30185 |startpage=7115 |nolink=yes}}</ref> Posted to No. 22 Squadron RFC to fly the [[Bristol F.2 Fighter|Bristol F.2]] two-seater fighter, he gained his first aerial victories on 6 September 1917, driving down two enemy aircraft. He destroyed two enemy fighters on 22 September, and captured another on 17 October. His sixth and final victory came on 28 January 1918, sending another fighter down in flames.<ref name="theaerodrome"/>{{sfnp|Shores|Franks|Guest|1990|p=354}}

::"For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. On each of three occasions, when on offensive patrol, he has attacked and brought down in flames one enemy aeroplane, in addition to which he has sent down out of control three other hostile machines. He has displayed great courage and determination as a patrol leader."<ref>{{London Gazette |date=19 April 1918 |supp=yesy |issue=30643 |startpagepage=4830 |nolink=yes}}</ref>

Stuart Wortley was appointed a squadron commander with the temporary rank of major on 1 July 1918,<ref>{{London Gazette |date=16 July 1918 |issue=30798 |startpage=8338 |nolink=yes}}</ref> commanding No. 44 Training Depot Station at [[Bicester Airfield|RAF Bicester]]<ref>{{cite book |title=The Royal Flying Corps 1912–1918 in Oxfordshire |first=Peter |last=Wright |origyear=1985 |location=[[Peterborough]] |publisher=[[Cross and Cockade|Cross & Cockade International]] |year=2015 |edition=2nd revised}}</ref> until September. He then returned to France where he commanded [[No. 88 Squadron RAF]] until the end of the war.<ref name="theaerodrome"/>{{sfnp|Shores|Franks|Guest|1990|p=354}} On 1 May 1919 he was appointed as a Staff Officer, 3rd Class, to serve at the [[Air Ministry]],<ref>{{London Gazette |date=20 June 1919 |issue=31411 |startpagepage=7831 |nolink=yes}}</ref> and was eventually transferred to the unemployed list on 2 July 1919.<ref>{{London Gazette |date=29 July 1919 |issue=31478 |startpagepage=9591 |nolink=yes}}</ref>

In 1919 Stuart Wortley married the Canadian opera singer Marie-Louise Martin,<ref name="FoxDavies"/> (known professionally as Louise Edvina)<ref>{{cite webencyclopedia |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/louise-edvina-emc/ |title=Louise Edvina |workencyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |year=2016 |accessdateaccess-date=1 May 2016}}</ref>) and worked as a young adultan aviation journalist until his death in the south of France from [[diabetes]] on 29 December 1926 at the age of 34.<ref name="theaerodrome"/>{{sfnp|Shores|Franks|Guest|1990|p=354}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thepeerage.com/p5230.htm#i52294 |title=Major Nicholas Rothesay Stuart-Wortley |first=Darryl |last=Lundy |workpublisher=thepeerage.com |year=2014 |accessdateaccess-date=7 August 2014}}</ref>

Along with Canada's top World War I ace, Colonel [[Billy Bishop]], heStuart-Wortley co-authored an adventure novel entitled ''The Flying Squad'', which was published in 1927.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Flying Squad |first1=Billy |last1=Bishop |first2=Rothesay |last2=Stuart Wortley |location=New York |publisher=George H. Doran Company |date=1927}}</ref> His own novel ''Letters from a Flying Officer'', a fictionalizedfictionalised account of his own experiences, was published in 1928.<ref>{{cite book |title=Letters from a Flying Officer |first=Rothesay |last=Stuart Wortley |location=London |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=1928}}</ref> A book of his short stories ''Tales of the Air'', was published in 1932.<ref>{{cite book |title=Tales of the Air |first=Rothesay |last=Stuart Wortley |location=London |publisher=University of London Press |year=1932}}</ref>

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* {{cite book |ref=harv |first1=Christopher F. |last1=Shores |first2=Norman |last2=Franks |authorlink2=Norman Franks |first3=Russell F. |last3=Guest |title=Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915–1920 |location=London, UK |publisher=Grub Street |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-948817-19-9 |lastauthorampname-list-style=yesamp}}

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