Edmund Tempest
Flight Lieutenant Edmund Roger Tempest (30 October 1894 – 17 December 1921) was a British First World War flying ace credited with 17 aerial victories. Early life and family background Edmund Tempest was born at the family estate of Ackworth Grange, in Ackworth, Yorkshire, the son of Wilfrid Francis Tempest, a member of the notable recusant Tempest family, and his second wife Florence Helen O'Rourke. (Wilfrid had a total of 15 children from two marriages). Tempest was educated at The Oratory School in Edgbaston. In 1912 he and his brother, Wulstan Joseph Tempest, moved to Perdue, Saskatchewan, to farm, but returned to England to enlist on the outbreak of the war. World War I Tempest was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant on 30 November 1914, to serve in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. On 18 August 1915 he was granted Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificate No. 1604 after soloing a Maurice Farman biplane at the Military School in Birmingham, and on 3 November he was appointed a flying officer in the Royal Flying Corps, transferred to the General List. He served in No. 6, No. 15, and No. 29 Squadrons, receiving promotion to lieutenant on 1 April 1916.