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Description: | Ms and ts letters (85pp) written between him, his wife as well as various other family members, relating to his military service as a Flight Lieutenant with No 7 Kite Balloon Section Royal Naval Air Service in HMS CANNING, 4 January 1915 - 19 October 1942, describing his daily routine and duties, with particularly good references to the fighting he witnessed whilst flying his balloon during the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula in January 1916, with a short diary (2pp), 3 - 12 October 1915, noting his movements during this time, also accompanied by a scrap book album (25pp) containing primarily miscellaneous papers and official reports, newspaper articles all collected throughout his service with the RNAS, including a technical diagram of a kite balloon, 12 photographs of him in his uniform with the Balloon Section and in civilian clothes as well as two Turkish newspapers (20pp) and one article (8pp), containing many images of the Middle East during the First World War.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2008-01-28 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Windeler, B C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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