Captain Henry Dixon TEAGE
Hampshire Aircraft Park, Royal Flying Corps

Date of birth: 7th June 1886
Date of death: 23rd July 1958

Survived aged 72
Unknown
Henry Dixon Teage was born at Boa Vista, Oporto in Portugal on the 7th of June 1886 the younger son of Dixon William Arthur Teage, a merchant, and Ada Jane (nee Crake) Teage of Haversham Manor, Wolverton in Buckinghamshire. He was christened at Oporto on the 11th of August 1886.

He was educated at Hazelwood School until April 1900 where he was a member of the 2nd Football XI in 1898 and of the Cricket XI in 1899. The school magazine wrote the following of his 1899 cricket season: - "Another very deserving cricketer, who owes his place in the XI to hard work and perseverance. A fair straight bat and bowler, but wild and uncertain field."

He was a member of the Football XI in 1899 when the school magazine wrote: - "Centre forward. Very keen and shows plenty of dash, but does not take a pass very cleverly and has only a right leg."

On leaving the school the magazine wrote: - "He was been a fairly useful performer in the field, and a very fair actor."

He went on to Rugby School where he was in Mr Steel's House from May 1900 to July 1903.

He applied for British naturalisation on the 30th of May 1912, which was granted on the 13th of June 1912. He was a graduate and an Associate Member of the Institute of Automobile Engineers and served as the Chairman of the Coventry Branch for a year. He worked as an engineer for Clifford & Sons in Hertford Street, Coventry from 1912 to 1915 and lived at 29 Warwick Row, Coventry. He also worked as a technical journalist. In all he had worked for ten years in the motor industry before he took a commission.

He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps, Hampshire Aircraft Park on the 6th of December 1915. The Hampshire Aircraft Park was formed in late 1915 as the only territorial unit formed by the Royal Flying Corps. It composed exclusively of employees of the Royal Aircraft Factory at South Farnborough and was created with the intention of being a mobile repair shop in the event of an advance in France. In the event they never served overseas. During his time with the unit Henry Teage was in charge of the engine school at the Royal Aircraft Factory and supervised the experimental work undertaken there. He was promoted to Temporary Lieutenant on the 20th of September 1916 and to Temporary Captain on the 1st of January 1917. He left the service on the 11th of March 1919.

He was married to Dorethea Margaret (nee Caldicott) on the 3rd of June 1914 at St Michael’s Church, Coventry; they had a son, Alan Dixon, born on the 10th of April 1917. They lived at 8 Curzon Street, Weybridge.

He died at Sanders near Dartmouth.
Went on to Rugby School

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