Captain Sir John William "Jack" Alcock KBE DSC (5 November 1892 – 19 December 1919) was a Royal Navy and later Royal Air Force officer who, with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland. He died in a flying accident in France in 1919.
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5 November 1892 Manchester, UK
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Died |
18 December 1919 (aged 27) Cottévrard, near Rouen, Normandy, France
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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