Ring with an initial These are from the effects of 791153 Robert Holmes Gillespie. He served in the 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles for 5 years before the war and then enlisted in the 131st Battalion, CEF and then fought with the 29th Battalion, CEF. He later transferred to the Royal Flying Corps (Royal Air Force). It looks like he officially discharged from the CEF to join the RFC. It does not appear that he ever served in Imperial Seaforth Highlanders, the 72nd Regiment Seaforth Highlanders of Canada or the 72nd Battalion, CEF. He became missing and later confirmed killed in action while with the Royal Flying Corps on 7 August, 1918 while a 2Lt with 15 Squadron. He is buried in Grave A.15 Fienvillers British Cemetery, France. The 131st Battalion, CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Based in New Westminster, British Columbia, the unit began recruiting in late 1915 in that city. After sailing to England in November 1916, the battalion was absorbed into the 30th Battalion, CEF on November 14, 1916. His CEF Service file is attached. It stops when he joined the RFC. His unit was No. 15 Squadron which was first formed at Farnborough Airfield on 1 March 1915 as a Royal Flying Corps training unit, commanded by Major Philip Joubert de la Ferté. It was mainly equipped with Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2cs, supplemented with a few Bristol Scouts, and moved to France on 22 December 1915, undertaking a reconnaissance role in support of the Army. It operated in support of IV Corps during the Battle of the Somme in summer 1916, suffering heavy losses from both ground fire and German fighter aircraft. It was praised by Douglas Haig for its work in support of the Fifth Army in the Ancre salient in January 1917. It was again heavily committed to action in support of the offensive at Arras in Spring 1917. It re-equipped with the Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 in June 1917, retaining the "Harry Tate" (a rhyming-slang term for the aircraft) until the end of the First World War. It moved back to United Kingdom in February 1919, and was disbanded at Fowlmere on 31 December that year.