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Major Evelyn Paget Graves : a 'fearless' RFC pilot who died in action 6 March...
Major Evelyn Paget Graves 1890-1917 “He was absolutely fearless.” Major Evelyn Paget Graves Royal Field Artillery and No.60 Squadron, R.F.C. By Gareth Morgan This article first appeared in...
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Jack Wilson MM: Durham Light Infantry, Machine Gun Corps, Royal Air Force
Written by Jonathan Vernon As a boy, after Sunday lunch, I recall sitting on my grandfather's knee and he would start off with the line ‘have I told you about the time ...' and he'd then add, ‘.... we...
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A Cambrai Casualty Lt Archibald Pratt
A Cambrai Casualty Lt Archibald Pratt No 70 Squadron and No. 68 (Australian) Squadron Royal Flying Corps By Gareth Morgan This article first appeared in the Australian Society of WWI Aero Historians...
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22 January 1918 Pte Richard Beard died of spinal meningitis
Richard Beard died of spinal meningitis 57215 Pte. Richard William Beard, 10th Bn. Prince of Wales (W.Yorks) Regiment Born at Embsay, Yorkshire in 1898, Richard was employed as a dyer in a...
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11 March 1917 2nd Lieut James Smyth killed in action
2nd Lieut James Smyth 2nd Lieut. James Smyth, 2 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps Born in Ballymacarrett, Belfast in 1889, James moved with his family to England while he was a child. Living at...
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7 April 1918 2nd Lt. Edward Booth killed demonstrating stunts over Salisbury...
2nd Lt Edward Booth 2nd Lt. Edward Borgfeldt Booth, 43 Training Squadron, Royal Air Force Born in Toronto, Canada on 31 August 1899, Edward was educated at the University of Toronto where he...
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Fighter Aces! - The Constable Maxwell Brothers: Fighter Pilots in Two World Wars
Pen and Sword, 2010. ISBN: 1848841779. Those who own a copy of Alex Revell's The Vivid Air, which was published by William Kimber in 1978, will immediately recognise Fighter Aces! as a reprint of a...
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Bloody April – Slaughter in the Skies over Arras, 1917
ISBN: 0 297 84621 3 HB 381 pages £25.00 Published by Weindenfield & Nicholson The Battle of Arras is the forgotton battle of the Great War. Many Great War authors have penned important works...
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Aces Falling, War Above The Trenches, 1918
Peter Hart, ISBN: 978 0 297 84653 6 HB 386 £22.50 Published by Weidenfield & Nicholson. Peter Hart, as one has come to expect, has written a first class account of the 1918 Air War. He has used his...
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21 December 1916 British air raid on Bargela 19 miles west of Kut
The Royal Flying Corps in Mesopotamia 1916 At Sea: North Sea HMSS Hoste and Negro lost by collision. HM oiler Murex sunk by U-Boat off Port Said. On Land: Rumania Russia withdrawal from...
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20 August 1916 Captain Basil Hallam Radford fell to his death
Cpt Basil Hallam Radford Captain Basil Hallam Radford, No 1 Army Kite Ballon Section, Royal Flying Corps Basil was born 3 April 1888 and lived on Cromwell Road, South Kensington. He was at the...
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Major Evelyn Paget Graves : a 'fearless' RFC pilot who died in action 6 March...
Major Evelyn Paget Graves 1890-1917 “He was absolutely fearless.” Major Evelyn Paget Graves Royal Field Artillery and No.60 Squadron, R.F.C. By Gareth Morgan This article first appeared in...
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13 March 1918 Lt Ronald Baines Brookes was killed on this day
Lt Ronald Baines Brookes, 55 Sqdn Born at Ingleton, Yorkshire on 19 November 1896, Ronald had emigrated to Canada prior to the war where he was employed as a salesman in Toronto. He enlisted into...
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11 March 1917 2nd Lieut James Smyth killed in action
2nd Lieut James Smyth 2nd Lieut. James Smyth, 2 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps Born in Ballymacarrett, Belfast in 1889, James moved with his family to England while he was a child. Living at...
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