photograph (copy), photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2001-07-1097-48

Description

Copy photograph showing the wreck of a crashed SPAD VII fighter, nose view, 1917-1918 (c). The aircraft, in a grass field, has inverted on landing and lies belly-up on it’s upper wing and tail with a smashed undercarriage and snapped propeller, the broken arm of which can be seen, foreground right. 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)