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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 258p,[8]p of plates : ill, ports ; 25cm. Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps History. World War, 1914-1918 Aerial operations, British. Air warfare. Service Aviation - World War 1. Genre: Illustrated. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 352 pages; Description: 352 p. 24 plates, illus. 25 cm. Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps. World War, 1914-1918 --Aerial operations, British. Impressively illustrated with a series of photo plates. 3 Kg.

hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original strawberry cloth covers, light blue title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 320 printed pages of text. Foxing to the page edges and end papers. Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with short closed tear and related crease lines to the top front gutter, chips to the spine ends, not price clipped, 10/6. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Royal Flying Corps Wireless Section: Photograph album, IV Wing, Netheravon, c.1917-1918 Photograph album compiled by a member of the Wireless Telegraphy section attached to IV Wing of the Royal Flying Corps, later Royal Air Force, stationed at Netheravon aerodrome on Salisbury Plain during the First World War. The original album contains 164 original photographs mounted on dark card leaves with contemporary manuscript captions throughout. Photos typically 55 x 80mm, a few larger, binding worn with a partial split along the spine but holding. Internally sound. Photographs generally well preserved, with a small number faded. Two photographs lacking from their mounts. The photographs document aircraft, wireless equipment installations, technical personnel, and daily life at Netheravon. Numerous images show wireless apparatus fitted to aircraft and members of the wireless section identified by name and rank including corporals and air mechanics responsible for the installation and maintenance of airborne wireless telegraphy and direction-finding equipment. Aircraft types recorded include examples of the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 fighter, De Havilland aircraft in flight, Bristol and Sopwith machines, and several photographs of Handley Page bombers, one caption noting an aircraft fitted with twin 320 h.p. Cossack engines. The presence of these machines suggests the wireless section was supporting bomber squadrons forming or training at Netheravon, including aircraft associated with No. 97 Squadron which was formed there in 1917 before deployment to France. The album also includes a photograph of the experimental 'Harlequin' camouflage aircraft, an unusual and rarely recorded attempt to develop disruptive paint schemes intended to confuse enemy observation. A rare contemporary record of the technical personnel responsible for early airborne wireless communication within the Royal Flying Corps during the Great War.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1916 hardcover 1st edition.

Hardback. St Marys Books is proud to present this fascinating slice of history a Royal Flying Corps Notes for Equipment of Officers complete with notes and inscriptions from a previous owner and RFC Officer R Fetherston Bound in light brown cloth with black ink lettering on the cover this hardback book contains 62 pages of text including fold out diagrams and detailed information that an Officer of the Royal Flying Corps would need to be familiar with What makes this item particularly intriguing though is the large amount of pencil inscriptions filling almost every blank page as well as the included documents Quartermasters Stores and further handwritten notes These notes alongside the writers doodles on the back free endpaper truly humanise the Officers of the Great War for any observer This book is in good condition the cover is bumped and worn there is some splitting at the hinges and pages 1012 are loose However it remains remarkable in itself that this truly scarce item has survived Notes for Equipment of Officers is looking for a new home where it will be similarly appreciated and preservednbspnbsp. book.

Octavo (165 × 106 mm), comprising a plain dark grey card cover with the pictorial title (a gelatin silver photograph of original artwork) mounted on the front; tipped in near the hinge on the inside rear cover is the programme, another gelatin silver print (142 × 186 mm) of original calligraphic artwork, mounted as a centrespread; essentially in fine condition. A small inscription in red ink at the foot of the programme proper reads 'held at #16 Sqdn. near Tang' Sep '17'. 'Tang' is presumably Tangmere, 50 miles south-west of London, where the RFC founded a training aerodrome in 1917. Major Charles Frederick Algernon Portal (1893-1971) 'was promoted to temporary major in June 1917 and given command of No. 16 Squadron flying RE8 aircraft on the Western Front' ('Air of Authority. A History of RAF Organisation' website). He went on to become Marshal of the RAF Viscount Portal of Hungerford, and was a prominent advocate of strategic bombing in the Second World War.

Powell enlisted in Melbourne in August 1914 (service number 187) and was deployed to Gallipoli with the 2nd Field Ambulance A.I.F. After the evacuation he was promoted to corporal and then sergeant while with the 1st Divisional Headquarters, seeing action on the Western Front, before training as a pilot and being commissioned as an officer with the Royal Flying Corps in March 1917. Deployed once again to France with No. 84 Squadron R.F.C. in late September 1917, he was reported missing near Menin (Menen), Belgium, on 31 October, likely shot down by a German fighter. The archive comprises: (1) Approximately 75 autograph letters sent by Powell to his mother Clara and twin sister Mary in East Prahran, Melbourne, running to some 235 octavo or quarto pages. They date from soon after his enlistment to shortly before his death. Six were written on the Gallipoli Peninsula, with others from Egypt, the Western Front, and the United Kingdom (mainly during pilot training). While many of the letters are routine and others are guarded, at numerous occasions Powell allows himself to reflect candidly on his experience of the war (see examples below). (2) Approximately 90 closely-written postcards, also addressed to Clara and Mary, mainly from Egypt while on active service. The postcards are often written in numbered series, most of which are complete. (3) Approximately 15 Field Service postcards, signed by Powell, several with Gallipoli postmarks. (4) Approximately 45 vintage gelatin silver photographs, most relating to Powell's war service. The most interesting are 17 small snapshots (approximately 45 × 65 mm) most likely taken by Powell himself (his letters suggest he was a keen amateur photographer), showing gullies and ridges at Gallipoli (2); Australian servicemen and encampments in the Middle East, with captions on the versos identifying several (7); R.F.C. aircraft, apparently Farman reconnaissance biplanes, in the snow at Netheravon Airfield (3, all captioned); and five others taken during pilot training in Britain. There are also five larger images (approximately 80 × 110 mm) showing military aircraft, two possibly also showing Powell, and two showing an airship. There are ten portrait photographs of Powell (five in uniform, one in a small cut glass and mother-of-pearl frame, probably purchased in Egypt), as well as three in which he is shown with a young woman (likely Mary), apparently taken shortly after he enlisted. A further nine photographs show friends and relatives (some identified). (5) Approximately 60 pieces of ephemera and personal documents relating to Powell's service, mainly mess bills, receipts and other financial documents, but also Christmas cards, cinema programmes, and city maps. A few relate to his life before the war, including a reference from an employer. There are also several interesting documents relating to First World War aviation, including the 'Royal Flying Corps Communiqué No. 58' (22 October 1916) giving details of R.F.C. actions in France (bombing, aerial photography, casualties, hostile aircraft, flying conditions etc.) for the preceding week. (6) Approximately 30 letters addressed to Powell, mostly from his aunt Emma. Many of the letters are dated 1917, suggesting they may have been among his effects when he died. One particularly engaging three-page letter from a fellow R.F.C. officer (Nugget, and addressing Powell also as Nugget, a few words censored) gives a very detailed account of a dog-fight with German aircraft over the Western Front. Dated 16 September 1917, shortly before Powell's deployment to France, it also includes much practical advice on flying in combat. (7) 29 postcards addressed to Powell from two young French women, Jeanne and Renée, whom he may have met in Marseille in early 1916: '. je suis inquiète de ne plus reçevoir de vos nouvelles. Ne m'oubliez pas. I love you' etc. There is also a small photograph of Jeanne, clipped from a postcard-format photograph. These items may have been forwarded to his sister as part of their running joke about him bringing home a foreign bride. (8) Some 40 official documents and family correspondence subsequent to Powell's death, including the official telegram announcing his disappearance. (9) Approximately 60 envelopes and other items of postal stationery, most retaining the postmarks and stamps (if used). The postmarks include numerous field post offices, including Gallipoli, Egypt, Greece, and the Western Front. (10) A Sam Browne belt and leather notebook case purchased with the archive, and with Powell's name in black ink on the inside surface. (11) A group of 7 postcards from Mary's fiancé Harold, while on service in Egypt and the Western Front. (12) Eighteen reproductions of other photographs relating to Powell's war service, showing Egypt, Gallipoli and (apparently) an airfield in Britain. Several show Powell alongside other Australian soldiers. A few highlights of the collection include: A letter to his mother from Gallipoli on 20 May 1915: 'The infantry have done marvellous work here as you will read in the press. It needs seeing the cliffs & then you could appreciate it. It was wonderful. Poor Lou Matthews died yesterday, I believe shot though the head, but Arthur Clayfield was all right yesterday at any rate. Keith McIlwraith . died the first day (bullet in head). I am not in love with this war game & in fact I think that after 3 more wars I will retire from the game & let someone else get all the glory &c out of it'. In another letter to his mother, from Gallipoli on 16 June 1915, Powell asks her to tell his sister that the dances in fashion in the trenches are the 'Shrapnel slide', the 'Shell shivers', and the 'Howitzer hug', and 'I may tell you baseball was a good training inasmuch as the sliding into a hole is concerned'. A lengthy letter from the Western Front to 'Ma chere Mere' is dated '8 Mai 1916': he has been granted furlough to England and asks for £20 to be cabled to his account. 'Our 2.