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Description: | British rigger served with Royal Flying Corps\RAF on Western Front, 1916-1918
REEL 1 Background in Newcastle, 1891-1915: work as apprentice wood machinist; recruitment and discharge from army due to attack of pneumonia, 1914; recruitment as rigger with Royal Flying Corps, 29/1/1916. Initial periods at Wellington Barracks, Aldershot and Farnborough, 1916 Period at St Omer and Marguise, France with RFC/RAF, 1916-1918: method of rigging wing struts; duties reassembling wrecked aircraft; learning how to swing propeller; opinion of various aircraft; flights in aircraft; checking on rigging of reassembled aircraft; method of tensioning rigging wires; fitting ready built wings; move during German advance to Marguise, 3/1918. Circumstances of demobilisation whilst on leave in GB, 11/1918. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Harrison, Hubert | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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