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Description: | Collection of papers relating to his service initially with the Westminster Dragoons but mainly with the Royal Flying Corps, stationed at Gallipoli where he significantly participated in the offensive that followed the Suvla Bay landings in August 1915, in the United Kingdom based at Gosport (early 1916) and then in France until his aircraft was shot down and he was captured by the Germans in September 1916; comprising a series of ms letters and postcards (240pp) sent to his parents, recording his service with the Westminster Dragoons and the Royal Flying Corps at Gallipoli and then as a prisoner of war in Germany; a War Office telegram announcing him missing dated 27 September 1916; his Pilot's Flying Log Book (17pp), covering the aerial combat he witnessed with No 27 Squadron RFC, from 18 June to 22 September 1916 immediately before he was captured; his ms diary (20pp), kept during his time as a POW, reiterating the circumstances surrounding how he was captured and relating some interesting anecdotes concerning failed escape attempts that occurred whilst he was imprisoned; also accompanied by his Aviation Pocket-Book' (176pp), published in 1916, providing an insight into aviation developments taking place at this time, a memoir (18pp) of the history of the RFC, written by Sir Hugh Chance, newspaper articles, photographs of him in uniform and a watch inscribed with his initials.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2007-11-27 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wingfield, E H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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