Pilot's flying log book of Squadron Leader Bernard Curtis Rice MC, 1916-1928

Bernard Rice enlisted into the army four days after the outbreak of war, where he joined the Army Service Corps and served in France as a despatch rider.

In August 1915, Rice transferred to the Royal Flying Corps where he served as an observer with No.2 Squadron. He later qualified as a pilot at the Military flying School, Farnborough, in April 1916. Rice returned to the Western Front in late 1916 and joined No.8 Squadron flying artillery spotting and tactical reconnaissance sorties. He returned to the UK in the autumn of 1917 and spent the remainder of the war as an instructor. Rice was tragically killed in a car crash in August 1933.