(1) An account of the importance of Major Herbert Musgrave in the early days of the Royal Flying Corps appeared in Walter Raleigh's book The War in the Air that was published in 1922.

A great part of the early work of the Flying Corps was experimental. An experimental branch of the Military Wing was formed in March 1913 under Herbert Musgrave. Major Musgrave deserves more than a passing mention in any military history of the air. In 1909, from the cliffs of Dover, he saw M. Bleriot arrive in a monoplane, and was so impressed by the sight that he went straight to the War Office to draw attention to the military significance of this portent, and its threat to our insular security. from this time forward his mind was set on aeronautics.

(2) In December, 1911, Major Herbert Musgrave gave a lecture on the need for a Royal Flying Corps.

When war comes, be assured it will come suddenly. We shall wake up one night, find ourselves at war. Another thing is certain - this war will be no walkover. In the military sphere it will be the hardest, fiercest, and bloodiest struggle we have ever had to face and probably every one of us here tonight will take part in it. We need not be afraid of overdoing our preparations.

(3) Wing Commander Maurice Baring was one of the most senior members of the Royal Flying Corps in 1914. In his diary he records Major Herbert Musgrave's RFC's experiments.

On September 18th the first experiments with dropping bombs from the air were made by Major Musgrave. One bomb was dropped, and it exploded, but not exactly where nor how it was expected to explode.

(4) Walter Raleigh described Major Herbert Musgrave's death in his book The War in the Air.

Major Musgrave was severely wounded in August 1916. almost two years later, on the night of the 2nd of June 1918, having persuaded a battalion commander to let him accompany a patrol, he was killed by a rifle grenade, inside the German lines. He desired no personal advancement, and would have thought no other honour so great as to die for his country. Such men, though the records of their lives are buried under a mass of tedious detail, are the engineers of victory.

(5) The East Grinstead Observer (15th June 1918)

Major Herbert Musgrave, of Dunnings Road, youngest son of the late Sir Anthony Musgrave and Lady Musgrave at Hurst-an-Clays, has been killed in action in France on 3rd June. Born in 1876, the major was educated at Harrow School and was given a royal commission in the Royal Engineers in 1896. He served in the Boer War from 1899-1902. From 1913 to 1914 in the Royal Flying Corps. During 1915 he served at the Headquarters of the 1st Army, from where he was transferred to France in December, 1918. He leaves a widow and a young child and his beloved mother.