"To the Directors of the Petenon Institute.
"Dear Sirs, "I feel I must write and give you a hearty appreciation of the results of the Pelman Course. May I • first be permitted to make a few observations regarding its application to my own personal case ?
Born in 1890, my preliminary education was spread over three or four private schools, whose combined efforts just succeeded in pushing me into the Navy, in 1905, where I remained until there was a prospect of specialising. The possibilities of the air attracted me, and, after overcoming sundry difficultios, I succeeded in being selected for the 2nd Naval Aviation Course at Eastchurch in September, 1911.
"The outbreak of war found me completing a period as assistant to the Director of the Air Department at the Admiralty, and on August 11th I was appointed to fit out and take command of some of the cross-Channel steamers in order to enable them to take on board seaplanes to carry out aerial work in the North Sea.
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