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Description: | Photocopied article (12pp) describing his service with No 201 Squadron RAF during the First World War, based on his original log books, covering the Battles of Amiens (August 1918) and the Hindenburg Line (September 1918), and activities following the Battle of Cambrai (September 1918); together with two copies of an ms history (22pp) of British aviation in the First World War, including descriptions of his experiences in training planes, fighters and seaplanes, and an interesting account of a forced landing near Lake Onega, North Russia in August 1919, while serving with the RAF Advance Wing, followed by his capture by the Bolsheviks, imprisonment in Moscow and release to Finland in March 1920. Also held with the collection is a ts transcription of an interview recorded by the Imperial War Museum's Sound Archive.
Cataloguer BAH
Catalogue date 1976-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sykes, R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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