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Description: | Ms notes (9pp) on transfers to and re enlistment into the RFC, 1912 - 1918, including descriptions of the procedures, forms, and recruiting drives for skilled personnel from the army in 1915; ms notes (55pp), with copies of supporting letters and Minutes of the Committee on the Administration and Command of the RFC, May - July 1916, on the organisation of the supply side of the RFC, June 1913 - June 1917, concerning the supply of aircraft, engines, mechanical transport, spares, stores, pilots, and ground crew, and including details of a disagreement with the French government over the swopping of aircraft parts for Lewis Guns; his ms and ts suggested ammendments written in May 1929 to Chapter IV, Administration, Supply, Recruitment, and Training 1914 - 1916, of Volume III of the OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE WAR: THE WAR IN THE AIR by H A Jones (Brancker was Deputy Director of Military Aeronautics, 1914 - 1915, Director of Air Organisation, 1916 -1917 and Controller General of Equipment and Master-General of Personnel of the Air Council 1918); and ts (2pp) note on the use of SE5's from No. 56 Squadron RFC equipped with bomb racks for an attack on German airfields on the first day of 3rd Battle of Ypres.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1973 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 56 Squadron Royal Air Force Royal Flying Corps | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brancker, William Sefton (KCB AFC) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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