Charles Edmonds
- Birth Date:
- 20.04.1891
- Death date:
- 26.09.1954
- Length of life:
- 63
- Days since birth:
- 48585
- Years since birth:
- 133
- Days since death:
- 25415
- Years since death:
- 69
- Categories:
- Marshal, Officer, Pilot, WWI participant, WWII participant
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Air Vice-Marshal Charles Humphrey Kingsman Edmonds CBE DSO RAF (20 April 1891 – 26 September 1954) was a decorated British naval aviator during World War I and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during World War II.
Edmonds served aboard the seaplane carrier HMS Ben-my-Chree during the Gallipoli Campaign. On 12 August 1915, flying a Short 184 seaplane, he made history by launching the first ever aerial torpedo attack on a Turkish merchant ship. It subsequently sank, although it had already been hit by the British submarine HMS E14. Five days later, he successfully attacked another Turkish ship, the first to have been sunk entirely by this method.
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19.02.1915 | Gallipoli Campaign
12.08.1915 | First attack with an air-launched torpedo
Short Type 184, piloted by Flight Commander Charles Edmonds, was the first aircraft in the world to attack an enemy ship with an air-launched torpedo. However, the ship had already been crippled by a torpedo fired by the British submarine E14.