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Description: | Collection of ms and ts documents (12pp) and two ms letters (4pp), all connected to his time as a Fight Sergeant with No 8 Squadron RFC / RAF during the First World War, relating mainly to his demobilisation in March 1919, including a Certificate of Identity, his Demobilisation Account, and a newspaper article from The Times, dated 4 June 1919, entitled ‘Honours for various theatres of war' announcing how he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal; accompanied by a ts report (5pp), presumably written by him after the war, relaying the history of No 8 Squadron and 50 photographs showing him in uniform with fellow members of the Royal Flying Corps and also some gruesome scenes of destruction wrought by the war on the Western Front, such as plane crashes, destroyed guns, vacant trenches and the Cathedral at Ypres as well as a particularly interesting image depicting a tank trap.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2007-12-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Burchett, C C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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