MISCELLANEOUS

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Item A1: AVIATION VOCABULARY. French-English / English-French (letters A-T only).


Item A2: ARTILLERY OBSERVATION. Photocopies of extracts from diary of Major W R Read, RFC (Royal Flying Corps), relating to air observation on enemy positions in 1914.


Item A3: AIRCRAFT - FLYING BOAT. Original painting, by Stuart Leslie, of an F2a Flying Boat with technical details on the reverse side.


Item A4: AVIATION MAPS. NW Europe, Scale 1:250,000, Sheets 3 & 5; Scale 1: 100,000, Sheets 14, Abbeville & 17 Amiens.


Item A5: See AIR MISCELLANEOUS: Item S11: SUTCLIFFE, G.


Item A6: ALLEN, E G. Officer Cadet, RAF (Royal Air Force). Group photograph of 61st Course, RAF (Royal Air Force), Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1918.


Item A7: AIRSHIPS AT EAST FORTUNE. Magazine, "R34 Twice across the Atlantic"; Leaflet outlining the history of non-rigid airships at East Fortune; Photographs of airships at East Fortune and a photograph of fabric stitchers at the airfield.


Item A8: ANDERSON, P W. Lieutenant Black Watch, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Photocopies of letters, photographs, etc., relating to the military history of PWA. PW Anderson (nephew).


Item A9: AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS. Photographs taken on bombing raids mainly over Belgium.


Item B1: BACHRACH, E. Air Mechanic, Westminster Dragoons, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Army Form Z18 Certificate of Employment; Army Form Z21 Demobilization Certificate; Field Service Letter 1915; 2 official Active Service envelopes; Malaria Attendance Slip; FS Form 687 RAF (Royal Air Force) Demobilization Account.


Item B2: BRASS PLAQUE MEMORIAL. Typed copy of a Brass Plaque Memorial to the members of the RAF (Royal Air Force) who were accidently killed when flying at Beverley Aerodrome during 1917/1918. It is located in the church at Bishop Burton.


Item B3: BOGGIS, E H A. Royal Marines and Flight Sergeant/Rigger RAF (Royal Air Force). Service Records; Form 856 Discharge Certificate.


[Item B4 not used]


Item B5: BALLOONS. Photocopy of article, "Half a Pair of Wings", by David Hyde, prepared for the magazine, "Cross and Cockade".


Item C1: CHRISTMAS CARD. Xeroxed copy of RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service) 1916 Christmas Card. Donor: W L Burr.


Item C2: COMMUNICATIONS. Wireless report between aircraft and 326 Siege Battery (2 July 1918); Aeroplane codes strips; copy of letters from GOC 6th Brigade RAF (Royal Air Force) commending the efficiency of 143 Squadron in Wireless Telephony. Donor: CM Denny.


Item C3: CABERET - ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE. Plan of cemetery; Full details of 75 casualties interred here including 4 shot down by Immelmann and 5 by Von Richthofen.


Item D1: DEREMO, J C. 2nd Lieutenant, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Photocopy of citation awarding him the DFC (Distinguished Flying Cross) in 1919; photocopy of his personal history following his enlistment on 6th August 1914 into a Canadian Regiment.


Item D2: DUNNING, E H. Squadron Commander, RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service), and awarded DSC (Distinguished Service Cross). Brief history of his military career including description of the circumstances of his death in 1917. Donor: A H Vernon Hillier.


Item E1: EILOART, G M. 2nd Lieutenant, RFC (Royal Flying Corps). Letter re posting to 5 Reserve Squadron RFC (Royal Flying Corps) in 1916.


Item E2: EXAMINATION PAPERS. Photocopies of Examination Papers for RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force).


Item E3: EAST CHEAP. Photographs of unknown RFC (Royal Flying Corps) pilots and other personnel at airfield presumably East Cheap in Scotland (see reference numbers on the reverse sides).


Item F1: FORDER, N. Research Papers of former student of P H Liddle; Copy of NASAM News (Norfolk and Suffolk Air Museum News); Histories of the airfields of Norfolk and Suffolk in four parts; Photocopy of "A Book of Souvenirs" 50 Squadron 1916/1919; Photocopy of a list of books (mainly German); 2 Photocopies of a letter of condolence; Photograph of grave marker of Henry Allen, Shropshire Yeomanry, "erected by his comrades June 1915" in Flinton Churchyard, Suffolk; Postcard of Zeppelin; Photocopies of two pamphlets issued by the The British Empire Union Book on Britains First Early Warning System; Copies of articles from various Aviation magazines, Photocopies of WWI Camel aircraft (1000th) in Ruston Works in Lincoln, 1918.


Item F2: FOX, R. 1st Air Mechanic, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Unused Field Service Post Cards; Photographs and post card; Army Form Z53 cover for documents; FS Form 687 RAF (Royal Air Force) Demobilization Account; Army Form Z11 Protection Certificate; Card from GOC RAF (Royal Air Force) in the Field re Demobilization; 2 copies of Von Richthofen Victory List; Photocopied account by Gunner Hawes AIF (Australian Imperial Force) re the last fight of the "Red Baron" and newspaper account of Signaller Ridgeway AIF (Australian Imperial Force) on the same subject.


Item G1: GRETTON, G C. (Tape 1687) 2nd Air Mechanic, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force), Wireless Operator. Xerox copies of Postmaster General Certificate of Proficiency in Radiotelegraphy, and Special Order of the Day from OC 9 Squadron, 17 Oct 1916.


Item H1: HYAMS, G F. Flight Sub-Lieutenant, RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service). Photocopy of report to CO of RN (Royal Navy) Air Station, Hornsea re forced landing; Photocopy of pages from log book 1917 and 1918; Photocopy of extracts from reports re aeroplane states for Redcar, 1915.


Item I1: INCHBOLD, G. Lieutenant, 4th Battalion Sherwood Foresters. Training Squadron notebook on the Lewis Gun. Donor: Canon G Hollis.


Item J1: JAYNE, F. 1st Air Mechanic, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Group photograph 63 Training Squadron at Joyce Green and letters to his son.


Item J2: JERVIS, J C. Lieutenant, RFC (Royal Flying Corps). Letter to the Curate of Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, when serving with No 5 Squadron in France and tattered newspaper obituary notice of his death in action.


Item K1: KELLY, A J. 2nd Lieutenant, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Observer No 12 Squadron. No folder but see in "Photographs".


Item K2: KAY, A. (Tape701); Private, Gloucester Regiment and ASC (Army Service Corps) Observer RFC (Royal Flying Corps) /RAF (Royal Air Force): Photocopies of VP including 2 photographs; 2 letters with brief recollections of service.


Item L1: LIVINGSTONE, J. Flight Cadet, RAF (Royal Air Force). Xerox copies of correspondence of his acceptance for the RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service) and the subsequent change in conditions of service on the formation of the RAF (Royal Air Force); Army Form Z11 Certificate of Demobilization.


Item L2: LINDSAY, J F A H. Distinguished Conduct Medal & Military Medal, Machine-gun Section, 45th Battalion, 5th Canadian Regiment, and RFC (Royal Flying Corps). 2 photographs; Photocopies of a supplement to a Memorial publication.


Item M1: MULCAHY-MORGAN, T W. 2nd Lieutenant, Princess Victoria's Royal Irish Fusiliers & Captain, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Photocopies of Commissioning Scroll, "Grand Concours Annuel" Certificate 1909, Central Flying School Graduation Certificate No. 87, photograph of RFC (Royal Flying Corps) officers at camp at Netheravon July 1914, congratulatory letter following a bombing raid and a letter from Windsor Castle after his escape from Germany.


Item M2: MILLARD, Vyse. Lieutenant, 2nd Essex Regiment and RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Photographs with negatives, of T E Lawrence, bombing damage, unknown group and naval vessels, with other photographs of naval aircraft in the desert and at sea ( the latter may have been taken by his elder brother who served in the RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service); Photocopy of letter to his mother and incomplete letter to P H Liddle. Donor Mrs Willes (daughter).


Item M3: MITCHELL, J. Captain, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Awarded MC (Military Cross), Valore Militaire and DFC (Distinguished Flying Cross). Manuscript list of brief career details and extract of aeroplanes flown from his Flying Log Book.


Item M4: MILLS, J P. Lieutenant, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Photograph with his brothers with letter identifying them; Photocopies of JPM, Vickers FB5 Gun Bus (aircraft). Donor Mrs F P F Bradshaw (daughter).


Item M5: MITCHELL, F W. Lieutenant, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Photocopies of Commissioning certificate, Aviators certificate, reference from his CO, papers relating to him being granted his Aviators certificate, Army Form E511 Demobilization Certificate, letters to his request to be able to return to the UK in 1942 from Peru to take part in the War and Letter of Authority appointing him as British Vice -Consul in Mollendo in Peru 1958.


Item N1: NETHERAVON FLYING SCHOOL. Photocopies of the Rules of the Air at Netheravon and Hints on Flying, September 1916.


Item N2: LORD NEWALL. Photocopy of Major Cyril Louis Norton Newall's citation for the Albert Medal 1st Class, 19 May 1916.


Item N3: NICHOLSON, E C. RAF (Royal Air Force) and RN (Royal Navy). Certificates of Service Forms 280 and S459. Donor S. Barr (See Research Correspondence).


Item N4: NEWSHAM, H W. Air Gunner, RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service), RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Copies of photographs of HWN and crashed aircraft. Donor D H Newsham (son).


Item N5: NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS. These refer mainly to the RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service) and a brief history of Eastchurch Flying Ground. Donor: Mrs M P Lyon.


Item P1: POINTING, K. 2nd Lieutenant, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). 4 studio portraits, one as Air Mechanic, one as Flight Sergeant, two as 2nd Lieutenant and one taken by the tail of an RE8 aircraft.


Item P2: POWER, H E. 2nd Lieutenant, East Surrey Regiment, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Photocopy of record of Service 1916/1936; Various newspaper cuttings; Correspondence with P H Liddle.


Item R1: RICHTHOFEN, M von. List of victories; Article from The Royal Historical Society of Victoria Journal and copy from the Journal, "The Death of the "Red Baron" - How the "Red Baron" died in 1918"; Photocopies of drawings by Corporal W C Gamble showing how he shot down MvR on 21st April 1918; See also - W H Gamble in the Australian Section, T R Attwater in Dom Front, E C P Thomas in Anzac (Aust) Correspondence File and R W Legg in Anzac Aust Recollections.


Item R2: REED, G R. 2nd Lieutenant Northumberland Fusiliers, RAF (Royal Air Force). Photocopy of Training Transfer Card. Donor: North East Aircraft Museum, Sunderland.


Item R3: REYNOLDS, Edgar. Sergeant, Princess Patricia's Light Infantry, and RFC (Royal Flying Corps). 2 photos and 2 letters from Dorothy Darnay of Hillington Hall, Kings Lynn to "Mr Clarke" (great uncle of Miss M R Clarke - Aunt of donor - Michael Clarke ) re death of "Edgar" in flying training accident at Yatesbury, Wiltshire; Letter from "Edgars " mother, Eunice; Reynolds newspaper cutting about " Princess Pats".


Item R4: ROSSER, F W. 2 ideas for aerial warfare put forward to Officer Commanding RFC (Royal Flying Corps) - Military Wing in August 1914, one for a pilotless missile aircraft (ie flying torpedo) and one for a vertical take-off aircraft. Donor: Barbara Rosser (widow) and Norman Rosser (grandson).


Item R5: RAYNES, Lord Charles Royle. Photocopy of his letter to Sir Charles Wade, Agent General for New South Wales, re his flying training at NSW State Aviation School. Donor: Neville F Hayes, (See Research Correspondence File).


Item R6: ROBSON, J. Letter to P H Liddle, with photocopy of a picture taken from a 1955 edition of "The Aeroplane" showing the first "Flying Bomb" circa 1917 designed by De Havilland.


Item S1: SAMSON. Commander, RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service). Original of a signal or telegram sent by him on September 16th 1914 and picked up at Imbros some time in 1916 having either being lost or discarded by him.


Item S2: SATCHELL, H L. Captain, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Photocopies of documents including, Army Form W3348 Combat Report of engagement in which Lieutenant Karl Schafer was killed, extract from the Dorset Evening News and articles on 20 Squadron from the "Cross and Cockade" Journal.


Item S3: SHAKESPEARE, G C. 2nd Lieutenant, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Form B2079 - Discharge Certificate on Appointment to Commission; Army Form Z3 Protection Certificate; The Kings Message to the RAF (Royal Air Force), 11 Nov 1918.


Item S4: STAFF COLLEGE, RAF (Royal Air Force). Photocopies of Air Historical Branch File Index - Accounts of Course students war experience. (These files are now held by the Public Record Office).


Item S5: STEER, J A 1st Air Mechanic, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Brief career details including note of seeing the body of Von Richthofen laid out in hanger at Bertangles; Photograph of himself , pilot and rigger of a Sopwith Camel. Donor: J H Steer (son).


Item S6: SULLIVAN, H G. Lieutenant, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force), later Wing Commander. The Kings Message to the RAF (Royal Air Force) 11th November 1918; Booklet of Semaphore and Morse Signs; Photographs of aircraft and airships.


Item S7: SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE. Magazine extract, partially in Afrikaans, concerning the South African Aviation Corps and the formation of the South African Air Force. Donor Colonel McGregor, South African Air Museum, Pretoria (See Research Correspondence File).


Item S8: SYMONDS, S L H. 2nd Lieutenant, No. 7 Squadron, RFC (Royal Flying Corps). Various papers including inventory of personal effects following his death in France in 1917.


Item S9: SOUTHALL, C L. 2nd Air Mechanic/Despatch Rider. Photograph and letter home.


Item S10: SANDERS, J B. Air Mechanic, RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service), and Anti Aircraft Gunner, RAF (Royal Air Force). Photocopy of diary extract for August 1917 concerning German air raid on Thasos. The papers were placed in the Collection per the RAF (Royal Air Force) Museum.


Item S11: SUTCLIFFE, G. Airframe Rigger, RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service). Photographs of crashed aircraft, anti aircraft guns, billets and aerial photograph of the German battleship Konigsberg in a refuge in the mouth of the river Rufiji on the coast of Tanganyika; Newspaper cutting.


Item T1: TATE, H. Captain, RN (Royal Navy). Photocopies of letters written to him by a pilot of No. 79 Squadron who was killed, 2 May 1918. (See Gallipoli File).


Item T2: THAYRE, F J H. Captain, RFC (Royal Flying Corps), awarded the MC (Military Cross) and Bar and four times mentioned in despatches. Typescript copy of extracts from "Flight", the "London Gazette"and "The Times" re an aerial engagement and extracts from letters of condolence following his being reported "Missing in Action". At the time of his death he was aged 21.


Item T3: TIARKS, V C M. Lieutenant, RNAS (Royal Navy Air Service) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Photocopy of Pilots Flying Log Book showing training flights only. (See also this catalogue under Williams.) Donor P Unwin (See Research Corrrespondence).


Item T4: TRAINING SYLLABUS. Training programmes for Schools of Military Aeronautics.


Item T5: TECHNICAL NOTES. Photocopy of Air Board Technical Notes (Engines). Donor North East Aircraft Museum.


Item T6: THORNTON, G. Captain, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) - Observer, "C" Flight, No. 17 Squadron. Photocopies of letters written by him from Darfur in the Sudan, 1916 and photograph of him.


Item T7: TAYLOR, A E. Sergeant, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). Brief manuscript recollections of cadet training at Hastings and Oxford in 1918 and uncompleted training at Collinstown, Ireland; Copies of photographs of personalities (with negatives).


Item W1: WESTGATE/MANSTON. Photocopied list of RN(Royal Navy) personnel who served at these Units.


Item W2: WINGATE, J. Lieutenant, later Wing Commander, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force) "I" Flight, 10th Wing. Letter of Commendation; Aerial photographs of Le Cateau, Valenciennes, Denain, Awoingt and Cambrai, all taken in 1917; Photographs of Belgian and German aircraft; Photographs of various individuals and groups, all without captions; German photograph of remains of destroyed British aircraft (with crew member).


Item W3: WARREN, J G. Flight Sergeant, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). 4 photographs of groups of airmen taken in Shropshire. JGW is shown as the "one smoking the pipe " in the HQ photo. Donor: Mrs M M Jessop (daughter).


Item W4: WOODLEY, W G. Corporal, RAF (Royal Air Force). Photocopies of Medical Certificate confirming his fitness to serve as Pilot or Observer and Pilot Cadet Identification Card. Donor: Mrs J G Beckett (sister).


Item W5: WINSCOMBE, J E. RFC (Royal Flying Corps), 1916-1919. Summary of Merchant Navy career up to retirement but involved in WW2 (Special Assignments); Various items of correspondence relating to RFC (Royal Flying Corps)/ RNAS(Royal Naval Air Service) Association; Old Comrades Reunion material; Various photographs taken at Old Comrades Gatherings. Donor: Mrs B Arthur (See Research Correspondence).


Item W6: WILCOCK, J L . 2nd Lieutenant, RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force). British War Medal and Victory Medal; 3 RFC (Royal Flying Corps) badges; Also button and army cap badge (either Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry or 12th Battalion London Regiment (Rangers) possibly deriving from his brothers, Joseph Mark &/or Edward John. Donor: Mr & Mrs R L Harrison & R L Harrison. (See Research Correspondence).


Item Y1: YARMOUTH. Photocopies of extracts from the "Yarmouth Mercury" relating to "Naval Biplane at Yarmouth" - June 1913 and "Zeppelin brought down in flames" - August 1918; List of aeroplanes serving at Great Yarmouth, May-Aug 1915.


Item Z1: ZEPPELINS. Booklet and leaflets from the Zeppelin Museum at Rhein-Main, Germany. Donor: N Forder.

Biography or history

Miscellaneous papers relating to the RFC (Royal Flying Corps) and RAF (Royal Air Force).

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