photograph (copy), photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2001-07-1097-34

Description

Copy photograph showing the wreck of an unidentified aircraft, possibly a Royal Aircraft Factory BE2e reconnaisance aircraft, with broken off wings and disconnected fuselage lying on a grass airfield, 1917 (c). A uniformed pilot, possibly Lt W C Carter, and a Sergeant fitter pose standing and leaning against the wreck. 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)