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Keptie
Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 939 Location: near Arbroath Angus
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 10:32 pm Post subject: new book : the Sky their Battlefield Expanded 11 updated |
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A new publication published during NOVEMBER 2014 called -
THE SKY THEIR BATTLEFIELD EXPANDED 11 UPDATED - Air Fighting and air casualties on the Great War : British , Commonwealth & US air services 1912- 1919 by TREVOR HENSHAW
published by Fetubi Books , 14 Thornton Road, High Barnet, Herts EN 5 4 JE
ISBN 978-0-9929771-1-5 softback
ISBN 978-0-9929771-0-8 hardback
Softback £40
Hardback £50
406 pages including index and many photographs etc
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Keptie
Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 939 Location: near Arbroath Angus
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 5:20 pm Post subject: The sky their battlefield expanded 11 updated |
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This book lists Each day of the Great War the casualties of the RFC/RAF with the details of each aeroplane the squadron , and details of that action in the air of each flyer - Pilot and with an Observer and it either were casualties - killed , dof , missing or POW .
An early casualty I see is CAPT W CAMPBELL - ADAMSON 6 Sqn RFC ( Capt W Campbell -Adamson from CARESTON CASTLE , Forfarshire killed on 20th April 1916 .
also 2/ Lt Alexander Urquhart , a Scot , ( 20 Sqn RFC ) from Drumnadrochit and lived and worked in Inverness as a sheriff clerk . On both war memorials killed on 17th August 1917 . HLI and RFC .
also 2/Lt H.W.M. Mackay ( Gordon Highlanders & 18 Sqn RFC ) Observer killed 18 Sqn RFC on 8 March 1918 . from Aberdeen
and Lt P W Anderson , Black Watch & RFC & RAF wounded in action 18 Sqn RAF 27 June 1918 dow 2 Nov 1921 from Arbroath . listed on Arbroath war memorial etc .
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