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Description: | Loose photographic prints (65) and prints mounted on album leaves covering the involvement of Percy Francis in aviation before 1914 and his subsequent service in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force. Also an album of photographs documenting the activity of a fighter squadron of the Imperial German Army Air Service during the First World War. The former material includes photographs of various pre First World War aircraft types; aircraft crashes both before and during the First World War; the Sonoda biplane, Airco DH10 prototype, Curtiss JN3 (serial A1255); Armstrong Whitworth RE8 (serial E24), group and portrait photographs of RFC officers and nursing sisters (Percy Francis spent some time convalescing in a hospital in Bournemouth); RFC mechanic running rotary engines on test beds; Harling Road aerodrome in Norfolk (August 1917). There are also a number of F N Birkett portrait photographs of aviators: Captain Albert Ball, George W Beatty, 2nd Lieutenant R P Braille, 2nd Lieutenant W M Butler, H E Cook, Captain C Fawssett, Captain J I Findlay, Captain Jouille, Lieutenant R J Michaelson, Lieutenant E S Mogridge, 2nd Lieutenant J A E Norgarb, 2nd Lieutenant W W Saunders, Lieutenant C G Scudamore, 2nd Lieutenant F W Smith, G B Wiggle. There is also a photograph of the R101 Airship flying over detached houses, possibly in Bedford. From 1914 is a photographic postcard showing Percy Francis and five other soldiers all wearing the uniform of the Seaforth Highlanders (taken by A W Pierce, Nottingham).
The German album contains photographs covering the activities of a squadron flying Albatros fighters from an airfield near Mars le Tour on the Western Front. There are views of pilots, aircraft (including numerous crash landings) and airfields. A sequence of four photographs covers the funeral of one of the pilots. Another set of four photographs shows a German pilot who has suffered burns to the face. Other photographs show German pilots relaxing off duty. Also of interest are photographs of two captured British aircraft: Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter (serial N5134) dismantled on the back of a lorry, and Handley Page O/100 (serial 1463) after landing behind German lines on 1 January 1917. The latter aircraft was subsequently flew in German markings until it crashed.
Card covered album with multi-coloured cloth covering, pages laced into album. The photographic prints are glued to the album pages. The only annotation are consecutive numbers handwriiten in ink below each print. The four loose album pages (two still bound together) also have prints attached by adhesive, the only annotation being a modern handwritten adhesive label which identifies the donor's father. The loose prints and photographic postcards are of a variety of sizes and include both professional and amateur photographs. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Pioneers of Flight Royal Air Force Western Front 1914-1918 British Army Royal Flying Corps Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force 1912-1918 Imperial German Army Air Service German Air Force 1914-1918 | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown Photographer | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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