Maurice Guillaux: France’s Forgotten Pioneer Airman in Australia

Author: TOM LOCKLEY
The French Australian Review No 56 (Australian Winter 2014): 4-25
https://doi.org/10.62586/JIOP5291

This article coincides with the centenary of the first postal flight in Australia carried out by French pioneer airman, Maurice Guillaux. That historic flight between Melbourne and Sydney took place in July 1914. The article summarises what can be found out about Guillaux’s life and career, focussing on his two hundred days in Australia and on the refutation of the absurd allegation that in 1917 he was shot as a German spy.

Keywords: Maurice Guillaux, postal flight, airman, Caudron bi-plane, the Pommery Cup, Louis Blériot, Melbourne-Sydney mail flight, World War 1