Name
Roger Michael Chaworth-Musters
23 Mar 1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/05/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Leicestershire Regiment and Royal Flying Corps
56th Squadron
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL
Stone D/2
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath Chaworth Musters Family WW1 Memorial Tablet Annesley Nottinghamshire Bengeo School Memorial - location to be confirmed
Pre War
Roger Michael Chaworth-Musters was born on 23rd March 1898 at Annesley Park Notts, to parents Lancelot George Eden Michael and Mabel Violet, his father was a Land agent. On the 1901 Census the Family were living at Park Cottage on the Annesley Hall estate. Roger attended Bengeo School and Haileybury College 1912-1915. He had one sister Joan Winifred and one brother Richard Hammond.
Wartime Service
Roger volunteered for service after leaving school and gained a commission as second Lieutenant Leicestershire Regiment but almost immediately transferred to 25 Sqn RFC on 26 Jan 1916. He was involved in a flying accident on 11 May 1916 and described as wounded. He also had a spell with 35 Sqn as an Observer.
Between 21 Aug 1916 and 2 Feb 1917 He was with 10, 20, & 27 Reserve Squadron and a Lewis Gun course at School of Aerial Gunnery. On 2 Feb 1917 he was posted to 49 Sqn RFC and on 3 March 1917 to 56 Sqn RFC. The Sqn. left London Colney on 7 Apr 1917 for St Omer, France where the Squadron re-equiped with SE5 Aircraft. By 20 Apr 1917 the first operations were underway from Vert Galant. Roger took part in ops on 2, 3 & 5 May but was listed missing presumed dead on 7 May 1917. It is believed that he was shot down by German Ace Werner Voss, second only to Manfred von Richtofen in numbers of enemy aircraft destroyed.
Additional Information
Brother of Major Richard H. Chaworth-Musters M.C. Norfolk Regt. who died on 31 Dec 1941 while serving as a Major with an Anti-Aircraft Regt. TA. Effects of £44 paid to his father.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour, Paul Johnson
