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Description: | Ms diary (178pp) and ts version (76pp), July 1917 to April 1919, covering his flying training in the RNAS and his service in No 207 Squadron, RAF flying Handley Page bombers in raids over the enemy lines in the Cambrai area (July - November 1918) culminating in his claim to being the last pilot to drop bombs on enemy territory and his period in the army of occupation stationed in Cologne, together with copies of his commissions, flying certificates, raid orders, demobilisation forms and Second World War orders making him a Group Commander and then a Zone Commander in the Post Office Home Guard, 1941 - 1943, also a published version of the diary compiled by his son entitled "Diary of a Night Bomber Pilot in World War I."
Cataloguer VAF
Catalogue date 1980-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Semple, L G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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