Henry Haberfield Thomas

In 1909 he joined the British & Colonial Aeroplane Company moving in 1914 to Vickers in London. At the start of the first world war he moved to the Royal Aircraft Factory.^[1] In July 1916 he was appointed the chief designer at S.E. Saunders Limited on the Isle of Wight.^[1] Thomas first design to fly was the Saunders T.1 a two-seat biplane, it first flew in 1917 but only one was built.^[1] His next project was a large flying boat bomber named Great Britain designed to carry a 1,000 lbs of bombs to Berlin.^[1] The design was not built possibly due to Thomas contracting influenza from which he died on 17 October 1918.^[1]

Thomas married in May 1917 to Martha Jessie Paterson and they had a daughter in May 1918.^[1]