Killed while flying over Dover.

Dover Express. March 3rd 1916.

It was at Dover that on February 27th this year, Lieut. H. Rosher was killed. The disaster happened on a Sunday morning, just before the sinking of the “Maloja” in the channel just outside Dover. Lieut. Rosher had been flying over the town and just as he was about to come down a most violent hailstorm occurred, and it was whilst descending through this that the accident occurred, which was visible from most parts of Dover and witnessed by so great many people. 

An Inquest was held on Tuesday on the body of Flight Lieut. Harold Rosher aged 22 years who was killed while flying over Dover on Sunday and a verdict of “Death from misadventure while testing a machine” was returned.

The coroner said the Lieut. Rosher was gazetted on December 31st 1914 was one of thirty-four pilots who took part in the successful raids on Ostend and Zeebruge in February 1915 and was also one of those engaged in the raid at Ostend and subsequently at Hoboken near Antwerp in March 1915, the official report of the latter event being to the effect that Squadron Commander T. Courtenay and Flight Lieut. Rosher were the only two pilots to reach their objective, coming down to a thousand feet to drop bombs on a submarine slips.

Last April Lieut. Rosher had a narrow escape while carrying out a reconnaissance. His engines failed while low down over the docks. He had one memorable encounter with a Zeppelin. 

On Sunday Lieut. Rosher’s machine nose-dived down from a height of about 260ft. The tail of the machine was on top of him, the machine having fallen upside down. Nothing was known as to the cause of the accident