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Description: | British NCO served as observer/gunner with 11 Sqdn Royal Flying Corps on Western Front, 1918
REEL 1: Aspects of operations as observer/gunner with 11 Sqdn Royal Flying Corps and RAF on Western Front, 1918: amusing story of taking engine oil for constipation; story of being shot down and taking over from wounded pilot to land aircraft in front of French lines, 8/1918; optimum height for taking photographs; photographic plates kept in box bolted on side of plane; reason for taking photographs at dawn; problem of flying at high altitude breathing; opinion of Lewis gun; repair and construction of Bristol F2B fighter; at Charleroi when war ended, 11/Nov/1918; further military service as motorcyclist with Army of Occupation in Germany; opinion of P & M motorcycle; story of starting fire with petrol cans to celebrate news of Armistice. 11/1918; attitude to being last veteran of Royal Flying Corps; problem of obtaining employment after war. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Quickfire Media | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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