{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{short description|English aviator}} {{Infobox military person | name = George Cyril Colmore | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|09|14|df=yes}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1937|06|23|1885|09|14|df=yes}} | burial_label = | burial_place = | birth_place = Hathern, Loughborough, Leicestershire, England | death_place = Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England | burial_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | nickname = | allegiance = {{UK}} | branch = Royal Naval Air Service<br>Royal Air Force | service_years = | rank = Squadron Commander | service_number = | unit = | commands = | battles = | battles_label = | awards = | relations = | other_work = }} '''George Cyril Colmore''' (1885–1937) was an English aviator and the first Royal Naval Air Service officer to gain a Royal Aero Club Aviators Licence.
==Military career== Colmore was born at Hathern, Leicestershire on 14 September 1885 and in 1901 he enrolled, aged 15, as an Officer Cadet at the Thames Nautical Training College (also known as HMS Worcester) in Dartford, Kent.<ref name="Census1901" /> In 1910, at his own expense, he joined the Royal Aero Club and learned to fly at the Royal Naval Flying School, Eastchurch.<ref name="spirit" /> On 21 June 1910 he received Aviators Certificate No. 15 flying a Short biplane.<ref name="spirit" /> Following his success the RAeC approached the Admiralty offering to train further naval aviators.
In 1917 Colmore was promoted Squadron Commander in command of the Wormwood Scrubs Royal Naval Air Station.<ref name="divorce" />
==Family== Colmore married Phyllis Isobel Fellowes (died 1963),<ref name="marriage" /> daughter of the late Captain Peregrine Fellowes<ref>[http://www.thepeerage.com/p57764.htm#i577631 www.thepeerage.com]</ref> on 25 January 1911 at St Peter's Church, South Kensington although the couple divorced in May 1921 on grounds of adultery; they had two children.<ref name="divorce" />
==References== <references>
<ref name="spirit">{{cite web | title=Spirit of the Air – Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore GCB DSO and the Riddle of the College Hall Keystone | url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafcms/mediafiles/BED9E42E_1143_EC82_2E04B76E8A022802.pdf | publisher=Ministry of Defence | year=2007 | accessdate=18 May 2010}}</ref>
<ref name="marriage"> {{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Marriages |department=Marriages |date=31 October 1910 |page=13 |pages= |issue=39417 |column=A }}</ref>
<ref name="divorce"> {{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Decree Granted to a Wife. Colmore V. Colmore |department=Law |date=6 May 1921 |page=4 |pages= |issue=42713 |column=F }}</ref>
<ref name="Census1901">1901 Census of Dartford, RG13/707, Folio 143, Page 7, George Cyril COLMORE, Thames Nautical Training H M S Worcester, River Thames Off Greenhithe.</ref>
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