James Templer
Military Person
1846 – 1924
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Who was James Templer?
Colonel James Lethbridge Brooke Templer was an early British military pioneer of balloons. He was an officer in the King's Royal Rifle Corps and Royal Engineers. Templer set out a scientific foundation for British military ballooning. In particular he worked out routines for balloon handling, how to use hydrogen in cylinders and methods for training observers.
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- Born
- May 27, 1846
Greenwich - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Harrow School
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Died
- Jan 2, 1924
Lewes
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on July 23, 2013
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