Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-15 | Page 19 | British Officers Reach Salt Lake

BRITISH OFFICERS REJICH SIT LIE Major Lord Innes-Ker and Captain Grealy Seek Aviation Avia-tion Recruits. Major Lord Eobert Innes-Ker, British Brit-ish royal flying corps, and Captain B. V. Grealy, of the same organization, arrived in Salt Lake yesterday afternoon after-noon and will spend the remainder of the week here enlisting cadets in the corps. ' Major Iuues-Ker and Captain Grealy are on a tour of the United States in behalf of recruiting and are endeavoring endeavor-ing to secure as many British young men of this country as possible for service ser-vice in the flying "division of the British Brit-ish army. "We are looking for bright young men, of college education, between the ages of 18 and 30 years," said Major Innes-Ker, "who will be able to qualify qual-ify ultimately as officers in the flying corps. We are not looking for mechanics me-chanics or men of that class, but men of education who are capable of learning learn-ing the flying game and who will make good officers for future use. We are looking only for young men who are subjects of the British crown." Major Innes-Ker and Captain Grealy, accompanied by their orderlies, order-lies, arrived at the Hotel Utah short; ly after noon, and will stop there while iu the city. They will co-operate with the local British, recruiting station sta-tion in the matter of getting recruits for the flying corps. The royal flying corps has proved a highly popular branch of the service, according to Lord Innes-Ker, and more than 80U -ouug men of English birth, who were in the United States, have already enlisted in the service. From here the English officers will go to San Francisco and other Pacific coast cities to continue their recruiting work. Major Innes-Ker, Captain Grealy and Tracy McGregor were dinner guests of Samuel Xewhouse at the Alta club last night.