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Description: | Album of nineteen annotated aerial reconnaisance prints, First World War, 1917-1918. Collated by Second Lieutenant Alwin Stewart Cross, RFC, RAF, 1917-1919. Also a curriculum vitae produced in 1944.
The aerial images in the album cover the area around Lens, Lievin, Vimy and Flesquieres. Specifically:
36C N 19Bd 20-26a - Lens Area (Vertical) - 6 July 1917 - Featured: German anti-tank craters, Lens Railway Station, Lens-La Bassee canal, destroyed mine buildings with railway lines to pit mouth, the 'Green Crassier', destroyed railway bridge
36C N 11a 25-70 - Lens (Oblique) - 11 July 1917 - Featured: Destroyed railway bridge, Lens Railway Station, destroyed mine buildings, foreground of flooded shell holes.
36C N 27c 81 - SE Lens (Oblique) - 1 July 1917 - Featured: Heavily shelled railway embankment, reserve German trench system including barbed wire system, occupied part of German trenches with dug-outs.
36C N 19bd 20ac - Lens (Vertical) - 19 August 1917 - Featured: Destroyed houses in Lens, Lens railway station
28D 8c 24 - NE Ypres (Vertical) - 24 September 1917 - Featured: An almost apocolyptic scenes of shell holes, German concrete pill box, occupied shell hole, foot tracks through the mud.
36C N 20d 21C 26b 27abc - South of Lens (Vertical) - 10 October 1917 - Featured: railway embankment, flooded areas, railway lines
36C M 22d 23cd 28bd 29 - Lievin (west of Lens) (Vertical) - 31 October 1917 - Featured: Quarry, Infantry Brigade HQ in dugouts, railway, British 4.5 inch Howizter battery including camouflaged walkway, observation post, fire trench, barbed wire system, communication trench
36C T 13cd 19 - British Lines near Vimy (Vertical) - 31 October 1917 - Featured: two 'very badly' camouflaged British batteries, a 4.5 inch howitzer battery and an 18 pounder battery, light railways, remains of Petit Vimy, destroyed by British shellfire during the attack on Vimy Ridge, double line of barbed wire protecting German trench system captured during the Vimy Ridge assault.
36C N 29 35ab - German defences East of Lens (Vertical) - 9th November 1917 - Featured: 4000 yards behind German front line, fortified shell holes, railway, coal mine and pit buildings, barbed wire defences
57C K 24bd L19dc - Flesquieres (after British attack near Cambrai) (Vertical) - 19 December 1917 - Featured: German reserve trench, old German third line of defence, communication trenches, German horse riding rings, derelict British tanks, Flesquieres village, German dugouts
Also present but unannotated:
57C G 8 9 10 14 15 - 9 May 1918
57D L 10 15 16 17e - 16 May 1918
36A L 35 36 - 30 August 1918
Sheet 37 (Oblique) - 1 November 1918
37I 32D 0 26 - 26 October 1918
37I 23d 29b - 4 November 1918
37I 31d 0 1b - 4 November 1918
37I 27ab - 4 November 1918
Red, cardboard bound album with nineteen permanently affixed aerial photographs. Annotations of numbers and arrows on photographs or surround. On opposite page in black ink a ledger and remarks describing key features as marked n the photograph. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Air Force British Army Royal Flying Corps First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Royal Flying Corps official photographer | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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