High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Air Commodore Robert Marsland Groves CB DSO AFC RAF (born in 1880, died 27 May 1920) was a Royal Navy officer involved with naval aviation during World War I. He was awarded his Aviator`s Certificate no. 969 on 15 November 1914. After transferring to the Royal Air Force in 1918, he served as Deputy Chief of the Air Staff and held high command in the Middle East. He was killed in a flying accident in 1920 aged 40 whilst serving in Egypt.