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Wing Commander Templeman-Rooke accepting as Commanding Officer
37 Squadron the Dunning Cup at RAF Luqa, Malta.
The Prestigious Coastal Command Dunning Cup Competition is named after
Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning.
This Officer landed his Sopwith Pup on HMS Furious in Scapa Flow, Orkney
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on 2 August 1917. He was killed five days later, during his second landing
attempt of the day, when an updraft caught his port wing, throwing his plane
overboard. Knocked unconscious, he drowned in the cockpit.
In memory of Dunning, the Dunning Cup or Dunning Memorial Cup is given
annually to the officer who is considered to have done most to further aviation
in connection with the Fleet for the year in question.
In the 1950s and 1960s it was awarded to Royal Air Force squadrons which
achieve the highest standard on courses at the Joint Anti-Submarine School.