Career
He was the first recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross & Bar and was also awarded the Military Cross. Harvey served with the Signal Company of the Royal Engineers until he transferred to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in December 1916. In December 1917 he was posted as a pilot to Number. 22 Squadron flying Bristol F.2B fighters.
His first air victory, a downed Pfalz Doctorate.III, was recorded 16 March 1918, followed by an Albatros Doctorate.V two days later.
With three more kills in March Harvey established himself as a flying ace. In May 1918 he was promoted to captain and commanded "B" Flight.
In the last decade of May Harvey, flying with Lieutenant George Thomson as his flight observer, downed two observation balloons and four German airplanes.
On 20 June he downed three enemy airplanes.
Shortly after this success Thomson was replaced with Captain Dennis Waight, who remained Harvey"s teammate until the end of campaign. The crew scored 9 kills during the Battle of Amiens in August 1918. After the war, Harvey served as an instructor with 33 Territorial Decoration Squadron of the Army of the Rhine.
On leaving the Royal Air Force he became a farmer.
During the Second World War he was awarded the Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire for his service. When the war ended he retired to Kent, writing many aviation-related articles and the history of his old Royal Air Force Squadron, Number.
22, entitled "Pi in the Sky". Harvey married Mary Gurdon, sister of his squadron mate John Everard Gurdon, in 1920.