photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2001-07-1097-46

Description

Photograph showing a close up left side view of the central fuselage section of a Royal Aircraft Factory RE8 reconnaisance aircraft, in which the pilot, possibly Lt W C Carter, with head uncovered, sits in the cockpit and smiles toward the camera, 1917-1918 (c). The shadow of the photographer can be seen at the bottom of the photograph. 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, Air Operations (1914-1918)