Bonjour
here is an article about him in Flight magazine
suffolk regt | yorkshire regt | lord petre | 1916 | 0728 | Flight Archive
Information is now to hand of how Second Lieut-
GEOFFREY VICTOR RANDALL, R.F.C., whose death was
announced in " FLIGHT " on August 1 ith, met his end. A
fortnight before he was killed he and his observer were
attacked by four hostile machines. Lieut. Randall brought
one enemy machine down, and kept the other three at a
distance until he reached the British lines. Later he was
attacked by eight hostile machines, shot through the head,
and killed instantly. His observer climbed into the pilot's
seat, and managed to get hold of the controls, when he was
rendered unconscious by a shot. The aeroplane circled and
grounded 400 yards from our front trenches. The observer
was rescued by a padre and a sergeant under heavy fire*
Lieut. Randall's squadron-commander writes :—" I am verycut
up, and so is the whole squadron at losing him. . . .
Twice lately I have brought his name before the proper
authorities for brave and useful work, and only a few days
ago I was ordered to convey to him the personal congratulations
of the G.O.C., R.F.C., in the field." And again in
another letter :—" He was overwhelmed with eight hostile
machines, but all accounts agree that he went straight into
the middle of them, and he would never have cared if it had
been 18 instead of eight."
Bruno