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Object description
Ts translation (121pp) of a memoir, undated, of his service as a pilot with the Norwegian Flying Corps, August 1914 - April 1917, and the RFC (under an alias), October 1916 - November 1918, including: an instructor with No 11 Reserve Squadron RFC, Northolt, October - November 1916, and No 37 Squadron RFC, Rochford, November - December 1916; repelling German raids with No 39 Squadron RFC, North Weald, December 1916 - July 1917 (resigning his Norwegian commission to become a Captain in the RFC, April 1917), and No 44 Squadron RFC, Hainault, July - August 1917; on the Western Front with No 70 Squadron RFC, September 1917, and No 101 Squadron RFC bombing near Ypres, September - December 1917; hospitalisation wounded, UK, December 1917 - March 1918; Flight Commander and CO, No 78 Squadron RAF, Sutton Farm, May - August 1918, and Archangel, North Russia, September - November 1918, returning to the UK; with interesting comments on a pilot's life, Norwegian Neutrality; the French Air Force, fighter tactics and training, and German air raids on London; and mentioning Air Marshal W A Bishop VC, Captain C F Collett; Lieutenant Colonel A V Holt; Major J T B McCudden VC, Captain W L Robinson VC and Air Chief Marshal Lord Trenchard.
Content description
Ts translation (121pp) of a memoir, undated, of his service as a pilot with the Norwegian Flying Corps, August 1914 - April 1917, and the RFC (under an alias), October 1916 - November 1918, including: an instructor with No 11 Reserve Squadron RFC, Northolt, October - November 1916, and No 37 Squadron RFC, Rochford, November - December 1916; repelling German raids with No 39 Squadron RFC, North Weald, December 1916 - July 1917 (resigning his Norwegian commission to become a Captain in the RFC, April 1917), and No 44 Squadron RFC, Hainault, July - August 1917; on the Western Front with No 70 Squadron RFC, September 1917, and No 101 Squadron RFC bombing near Ypres, September - December 1917; hospitalisation wounded, UK, December 1917 - March 1918; Flight Commander and CO, No 78 Squadron RAF, Sutton Farm, May - August 1918, and Archangel, North Russia, September - November 1918, returning to the UK; with interesting comments on a pilot's life, Norwegian Neutrality; the French Air Force, fighter tactics and training, and German air raids on London; and mentioning Air Marshal W A Bishop VC, Captain C F Collett; Lieutenant Colonel A V Holt; Major J T B McCudden VC, Captain W L Robinson VC and Air Chief Marshal Lord Trenchard.
History note
Cataloguer SNR
History note
Catalogue date 1991-06-04