photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2001-07-1097-26

Description

Photograph showing the front view of the wreck of a crashed, overturned, unidentified aircraft lying in a grass airfield, 1917-1918 (c). Wings have buckled, a wheel has broken of and the propeller, engine and housing have been smashed beyon repair. A group of Royal Flying Corps personnel stand in front of the aircraft, as a mechanic stands on the aircraft. Probably at a training airfield within a commandeered racecourse: see related photograph album. From an album containing 96 photographs relating to Lt William Charles Carter who served in the Artists’ Rifles The London Regiment from 1913 and 13 Sqn Royal Flying Corps 1917-1918.

Campaigns

World War One (1914-1918)