PARENTEEL TEN CATE IV.ar Herman A Ledeboer

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John Henry Ledeboer is auteur van "The art of flying" (1910), "Aircraft losses in the war", "Last Zeppelin Raids", "Flight without formulae, simple discussions on the mechanics of the aeroplane" (1916). Op 4 augustus 1912 vloog hij als passagier het Kanaal over: de eerste kanaalvlucht die twee passagiers aan boord had; de piloot was William Barnard Rhodes Moorhouse en de tweede passagier was diens vrouw Linda. Bij de landing crashde het vliegtuig bij Ashford; naar verluid was het vliegtuig zwaar beschadigd maar bleven de inzittenden tamelijk ongedeerd (hoewel er berichten zijn over een miskraam van Linda). Hij werd op 10-10-1919 geridderd wegens betoonde moed in de Eerste Wereldoorlog tot lid van de militaire divisie van "The Most Excellent Order".

Er berust een dossier over hem in The National Archives onder archiefnummer WO 339/93223 [niet ingezien]

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lit: genealogie Koek en aanverwante families

lit: Ned. Patr. 1919, p 225; Ned. Patr. 1986 [niet ingezien]

* 1878, 20-12: Stadsarchief Den Haag, BS huwelijk akte nr 897: Herman Arnold Ledeboer, 32 jaar, geboren te Enschede, wonende te Manchester, fabrikant, meerderjarige zoon van Abraham Ledeboer, overleden, en van Maria Geertruid van Heek, wonende te Enschede, met Bernardina Antonia Cornelia van der Linden, 31 jaar, particuliere, geboren en wonende alhier, meerderjarige dochter van Mr. Gijsbertus Martinus van der Linden, lands-advocaat, wonende alhier, en van Jacoba Henriette Wttewaal, overleden. Getuigen: Abraham Ledeboer, 36, fabrikant te Enschede, Helmich Ledeboer, 34, bankier te Almelo, broers van de bruidegom, Gijsbertus Martinus van der Linden, lands-advocaat, 66, vader van de bruid en Bartholomeus Willem Wttwaal, 71, particulier, oom van de bruid.

kind 2: Ghisbert Martin Ledeboer

Er berust een file van hem bij de National Archives in de archieven van de Royal Air Force onder inv.nr AIR 79/593/64844

kind 3: John Henry Ledeboer

Obituary: JOHN HENRY LEDEBOER, Associate Fellow; John Henry Ledeboer, who died on February 7th, was born on November 27th, 1883; the son of H. A. Ledeboer, of Manchester. He was educated at Tonbridge and Caius College, Cambridge, of which college he was a scholar. He took a first class in the Medieval and Modern Languages Tripos. From his earliest years he took a keen interest in aviation and on coming down from Cambridge he founded and edited " Aeronautics," of which he was editor from 1907 to 1916. In its pages appeared many important technical articles on aviation, and under Mr. Ledeboer's editorship the paper became an important publication devoted to technical questions. During the war he rose to be a Major in the R.A.F. and continued to serve until shortly before his death. He became an Associate Fellow in 1908, and was the author or co-author of a number of books on aviation, and numerous technical and other contributions to various papers. Major Ledeboer was widely known and liked. He was a man of great brilliance and by his early death aviation has lost one who had a wide grasp and an enviable knowledge of British aircraft, one who, as far back as 1906, foresaw that the world of the future was in the air.

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