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Description: | Photograph album and attached prints (plus three loose prints and two newspaper clippings) representing the service of Flight Commander S J Goble DSO DSC in the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War. Goble later became Air Vice-Marshal and Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Australian Air Force. Album coverage includes Gobles service at RNAS Dover (1915-1916), with No 8 Squadron at Couldekerque (Dunkirk) from October 1916, and as a pilot and also CO of No 5 Squadron at Petit Synthe (1917-1918):
Half length studio portrait, signed, of Goble in the uniform of a Flight Lieutenant; an aerial view of the aerodrome at Petite-Synthe, Nord-Pas de Calais, home of No 5 Squadron RNAS; semi-formal group photograph of the pilots of No 5 Squadron, with Goble in command (c late-1917); Short Seaplane activities including landing off Zanzibar, East Africa.
Scenes at RNAS Dover in 1915 including the interior and exterior views of the aircraft hangars, taking his elder brother Norman up in a BE8, other aircraft featured include a Bleriot Type IX Monoplane, Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter, Sopwith Pup, Bristol Scouts, Sopwith Triplane (possibly whilst under tirals at Furness in June 1916), a Schneider Seaplane in flight. Named individuals include Flt Lt Waner Hutchins Peberdy alongside his Morane Parasol monoplane (later killed when he failed to return to Pimnos after a mission over Eastern Macedonia).
A bank of Sopwith Triplanes of No 1 Squadron RNAS are featured at Bailleul, France as are the pilots of the squadron.
Scenes at Coudekerque of No 5 Squadron (formed from B Flight No 5 Wing) of which Goble was a pilot, then the Commanding Officer. Views of the aerostation, Christmas 1917 celebrations; accidents involving Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutters, Bristol Scouts; an aerial view of the City of London; interior views of Goble's office and accomodation;
Images of a Short bomber landing on an aerostation building (unknown location); a Sopwith Bomber (similarly destroyed); a double engined Caudron G.4 reconnaisance-bomber with No 5 Wing at Dover (1915-1916). Bebe (Baby) Nieuport XIs of No 4 Wing; some of the senior squadron pilots of No 5 Squadron at Coudekerque, a Sopwith Bomber at Petite-Synthe which was issued to No 5 Squadron RNAS as an evaluation aircraft; various German aircraft; a crashed French aircraft on the 'tennis-courts' of Petite-Synthe; the temporary grave marker of 2d Lt N F Goble of 33rd Batalion AIF, the aforementioned older brother of S J Goble. a visit to Coudekerque (possibly Petite Synthe) by the King and Queen of Belgium, a Handley Page O/100 bombers probably of No 7 Squadron (5th Wing) at Petite Synthe; interior views of Engine Shop, Armoury and Mens' Mess at Petite Synthe.
Card and leather photograph album (detached front cover). Photographs permanently affixed to album pages. Annotations in white ink - captions degrading. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Goble Stanley James | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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