Evelyn Ffrench
Aka "Jeffrey Silant"

Born in ca 1874. A West Australian stockman and station owner, he was apparently appointed the Legion of Frontiersmen's "Organising Officer for the Murchison District in Western Australia".

Pocock described him as "In build he suggested an Egyptian cigarette about a fathom long. His face was dried and wizened. His eyes were fey. A drooping moustache hid lines about his mouth, which had been caused by torture. . . .. "Three times in early life his spine had been wrenched by bucking horses, so that never afterwards was he free from pain; and yet, twice in the South African Field Force he had been recommended for the Victoria Cross. He held a world-record in pack transport, having, with a mare named Gentle Annie to carry cargo, crossed the State of Victoria, a hundred and forty two miles in a single march, bringing in his horses fresh. He could throw a horse gently from the saddle without dismounting. When we were alone together, to ease his back he would stand on the saddle and at a canter ply the whole series of stockwhip flashes. Once bidding me pull my revolver on him, at twenty paces and with one flick of the stockwhip, he disarmed me, and lashed my gun-hand to my thigh without causing the slightest pain. He could mount and dismount behind me at a canter without my feeling his presence on the horse. I think he was the greatest living horseman."

Severely wounded at the second Battle of Ypres, during WW1, he joined the Royal Air Force as their oldest pilot. Finished his service on the Western Front and was killed three days after the armistice following an air crash when flying with a pupil. A memorial was made to him by mounting his broken propeller into a closed doorway within the Savage Club in London.