Captain S Kinkead
Samuel Kinkead
- Rank
- Captain
- Honours
- DSO DSC & Bar DFC & Bar
- School
- Jeppe High School for Boys
- Fate
- Killed in a flying accident
- In the book
- Pages 30
From the book
A Natural Curiosity
Notwithstanding Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Elsworthy’s comment, “Sailor” Malan’s “name will live on in the history of the Royal Air Force” or, General Jan Smuts’s involvement in the formation of the Royal Air Force and his role as Churchill’s confidante during the Second World War, the only artwork of a South African, apparently relegated to a storeroom for a time before being reinstated to a position in very august company on a wall in the Royal Air Force Club’s impressive Churchill Bar, is a full length portrait of Flight Lieutenant Samuel Marcus Kinkead DSO DSC DFC who lost his life in 1928 attempting to break the world's speed record.
Links of Long Standing
More South African First World War veterans including SACS educated Flight Lieutenant Andrew W Beauchamp-Proctor VC DSO MC DFC, and Captain Samuel Kinkead DSO DSC and Bar DFC and Bar, a product of Jeppe Boys High in Johannesburg, may have become “Air Officers” had they not been killed in flying accidents. Captain Kinkhead is the only South African airman whose full-length portrait can be found in the august company of Sir Winston Churchill and others in the Royal Air Force Club’s impressive Churchill Bar.