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• Badge and Ribbon of a Companion of The Distinguished Service Order & DSO

  (decorations and awards) Made by: Garrard & Co Ltd

  Captain John Ingles Gilmour DSO MC** Royal Flying Corps (28 June 1896 - 24 February 1928), the son of the late John J Gilmour and Mrs Gilmour Brewer, was born at Helensborough, Dumbartonshire in 1896. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant into the 1st...

• Self Portrait in Uniform

  (art) Made by: Carline, Richard C 1918

  image: A head and shoulders self-portrait of the artist wearing uniform.

• DUXFORD AIRFIELD 1918-1939

  part of "RABY ALISTAIR (MR)" (photographs) 1918-07

  A General Service Aeroplane Shed under construction at Duxford, July 1918.

• War Weapons Week April 8th to 13th

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1918-03

  whole: the main title is placed across the top in yellow, with the text and image below. All held within a black border. image: a rear view of a biplane flying away from the viewer. The plane carries the insignia of the RFC and flies over the coastline....

• War Weapons Week April 8th to 13th

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1918-03

  whole: the main title is placed across the top in yellow, with the text and image below. All held within a black border. image: a seaplane flying towards the viewer and bearing the insignia of the RFC. The plane flies over the coastline away from four...

• Buy Your War Bonds Now!

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1918

  whole: the title is placed lower left, in grey-blue and speckled red against a black background. The image is positioned above at the upper right. image: a quarter segment of a Royal Flying Corps insignia roundel. text: BUY WAR BONDS NOW No.74.

• goggles

  (equipment)

  Flying goggles worn by Sergeant Thomas Mottershead (20 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps) on his final mission on the Western Front during the First World War. Flying over Ploegsteert (Belgium) on 7 January 1917 his FE2d aircraft was attacked by enemy scouts...

• flying helmet

  (equipment)

  Flying helmet worn during the First World War by Sergeant Thomas Mottershead of No 20 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps (RFC) when he won the Victoria Cross on 7 January 1917. During combat, Mottershead's FE2d aircraft caught fire. He manoeuvred it in such a...

• piece of metal from Zeppelin SL11

  (vehicles, aircraft and ships)

  Metal remnant salvaged from the First World War German Army airship SL11, which was shot down in flames at Cuffley, Hertfordshire by Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson (39 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps) on 2-3 September 1916. The SL11 was the first airship...

• WINSTON CHURCHILL WITH NAVAL WING OF THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS, 1914.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) 1914-05-15

  First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill (centre, facing camera), stands in front of Short Type S.38 Biplane (a.k.a. Short S.77), No. 66, of the Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps, during a visit to Eastchurch, Kent. No. 66, seen here with a...