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Description: | Photocopies (77pp) of a very interesting ms account covering his service as a pilot with Nos 24 and 38 Squadrons RFC, August 1916 - March 1918, and No 55 Squadron RAF, March - July 1918, containing excellent descriptions of his attempts to join the RFC in August 1916 after being commissioned in the 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (10th Brigade, 4th Division), his training and first solo flight at Netheravon in the UK, his involvement in a crash at Rendcomb while flying a BE8, on active service as a ferry pilot based in Farnborough (November 1916), transfer to St Omer, France as a test pilot (April 1917), to No 55 Squadron RAF based at Tantonville (March 1918), his experiences of coming under fire in the air, and involvement in bombing raids on Mannheim (March 1918) and Cologne (May 1918). Also held with the account are photocopies of his flying log books covering the periods August 1916 - November 1917 (51pp) and November 1917 - October 1920 (36pp); an ms diary for March - July 1918 (34pp); and an article from "Popular Flying" magazine (3pp, August 1935) describing a 1918 raid on Oberndorf by No 55 Squadron RAF.
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Catalogue date 1998-07-21 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Keep, A S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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