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"?Who is it! Oak Cliff, Texas" Snapshot of Sergeant Devos.
Page of the photograph album compiled by Sergeant C. P. Devos while the Royal Flying Corps were training in their winter quarters near Fort Worth, Texas, 1917-1918.
BE2c At Sunset
The Be2c was the aircraft used by the Royal Flying Corps in 1914. It was slow, unarmed and very frail but was still retained well into 1916.
138014 3rd Air Mechanic P.H. Marshall
138014 3rd. Air Mechanic
Percy Harold Marshall
Royal Flying Corps
16th. February 1918
Age 19
Additional Information:
Son of William Henry and Rosa Elizabeth Marshall, of the Duke of Clarence, 49, Alfred St., Bow, London
Buried at Tring Road cemetery, Aylesbury, Bucks.
Royal Flying Corps
Royal Flying Corps pilot standing beside Sopwith Camel aircraft.
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Royal Flying Corps
Royal Flying Corps, Italy. Donor is seated on the right.
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Royal Flying Corps
Young man, from "Royal Flying Corps". Taken at Gale's Studios Ltd., "With best wishes love Fred."
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Royal Flying Corps
George, aged 26, in the Royal Flying Corps in 1914.
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Royal Flying Doctor HQ
Touring the Royal Flying Doctor headquarters for the Northern Territory at Alice Springs.
Royal Flying Corps
Donor in the Royal Flying Corps 1st World War. On the reverse: E.Crapper, 475 Gorton Road, N. Reddish.
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Donor in R.F.C. uniform, Third Aircraftman.
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Royal Flying Doctor Service
A plane of the RFDS coming into land at the Toowoomba City airport.
Royal Flying Corps cap
During the first world war, the war became increasingly mechanised, through the use of machine guns and motor vehicles. Aeroplanes were used initially to spy on the enemy, and were later equipped with bombs and machine guns.
Accession number: 2005.3002
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Teitl Cymraeg/Welsh title: [Awyrennwr, y Corfflu Awyr Brenhinol]
Ffotograffydd/Photographer: D C Harries (1865-1940)
Dyddiad/Date: [c1917]
Cyfrwng/Medium: Negydd gwydr / Glass negative
Gweld y cofnod catalog | View the catalogue record (6389772)
Gweld y ddelwedd | View the image (3891134)
Rhagor o wybodaeth am gasgliad D C Harries yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
More information about the D C Harries Collection at the National Library of Wales
Royal Flying Corps officers in front of a BE2b.
Can anyone identify the plane? From the Robert McKenzie fonds, PR1991.0305/56.
Royal Flying Doctor Service
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Snoopy on the Flying Doctor
My mother painted Snoopy on the nose of the Royal Flying Doctor Service's Charleville plane in the late 1960's. We've heard (but not confirmed) that every RFDS Charleville plane since has had a Snoopy on it. This photo is a frame grab from standard 8mm footage of my father's.
BTW ... That's me in the bottom right corner of the shot.
Royal Flying Doctor Service-1&
Royal Flying Doctor Service
Royal Flying Doctor Service
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Royal Flying Doctor Service
A map of the Alice Springs RFDS coverage compared to the UK.
John Flynn - Royal Flying Doctor Service - Queensland
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Ceduna Airport. Royal Flying Doctor aircraft and two ambulances.
Unlike most South Australia towns Ceduna was founded in the 20th century when the optimism of the 19th century farmers had waned. Early explorers had not reported favourably on the land here. Edward John Eyre made his visit to the region in 1839 after sailing to Port Lincoln and then he explored it again in 1840/41. On his second trip he complained about the lack of any water after a ship had provided water to him at Streaky Bay. His party then walked as there was no water for horses. This fateful journey, when Aborigines killed two of his party and Eyre and his Aboriginal friend Wylie nearly died of thirst, Eyre managed to cross the Nullarbor Plain to WA. But none of his reports encouraged settlers. Two explorers Miller and Dutton in 1857 noted no water but said there were good areas of grasslands. The first large pastoral leaseholds were taken up in 1860 but soon surrendered and taken up again after 1868. This was tough country even for sheep. Robert Barr Smith took out the Fowlers Bay run which included Murat Bay and covered 199 square miles. Other leaseholds were also taken up along the coast. All were resumed by the government in the late 1880s when the hundreds were declared. The Hundred of Bonython which covers Ceduna was declared in 1893 and a small farming community began on Murat Bay at Denial Bay. Thirty early settler families petitioned the government for a surveyed town in 1896. This happened in 1901 and it was named Murat Bay. But the town developed very slowly. The first church opened in 1909; the government school only opened in 1914 and minimal development occurred before 1915 when the railway from Port Lincoln reached the town. Before the railway arrived the first government wharf and jetty was built in 1904 to take away the bagged grain at a cost over £6,000; an early stone Institute building was erected; there were two early general stores; the town had a stone hotel –licensed to Mr Charles Mudge in 1901 for opening in 1902; the first police station opened in 1903; the first wooden Post Office opened in 1902; the town before 1909 had a saddler, a blacksmith, a butcher, baker, etc but no candle stick maker.
All the major Christian faiths have been represented in Ceduna. The first church built in Ceduna was the Methodist in 1909 in Poynton Street. Its porched was added 1959 and the “new” church hall was added in 1962. The second church was the early Anglican Church also built in Poynton Street in 1911. It was last used for services in 1954 when the new St Michael’s and All Angels Church across the street opened. It was dedicated by the Bishop of Willochra in 1955 and the adjacent parish hall was built in 1981. The third church erected in town was the Lutheran Church in East Terrace. It was built in 1927 but was in a deteriorating condition by 1970. In 1971 it was demolished and a new Lutheran Church opened. Lutheranism was a strong faith in this region with the Koonibba Lutheran Aboriginal Mission (est. 1901) 39 kms out of town and the early Lutheran Church in Denial Bay 13 kms away which was the first church in the whole region built in 1897. In 1929 the Catholics built a church in Bergman Drive. It was dedicated as Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church. A new parish hall was erected in 1977. Ceduna became its own Catholic parish with a resident priest in 1973 when it broke away from Streaky Bay.
Replica Royal Aircraft Factory RE8 'A3930 / B' (ZK-TVC)
c/n 0002.
Built in 2011 by The Vintage Aviator Ltd (TVAL) in New Zealand. First flew on 1st January 2012.
She represents an aeroplane of 9 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, who flew the type from May 1917 until replaced by Bristol Fighters in February 1919.
She made two public appearances in New Zealand before being imported to the UK in August 2012.
This was her second and final flying display in the UK, having first displayed at Old Warden the previous Sunday. After the Duxford display she was flown back to Old Warden and then moved by road to the RAF Museum at Hendon, where she remains on permanent static display.
Seen at the Imperial War Museum’s 2012 Autumn Airshow.
Duxford Airfield, Cambridgeshire, UK
8th September 2012
Royal Flying Doctor Plane
At the Aviation Museum
Royal Flying Corps mechanical workshop
From the Robert McKenzie fonds, PR1991.0305/55.
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