Photograph showing a Royal Aircraft Factory RE8 reconnaisance aircraft, left side view, in which the pilot Lt W C Carter, sits in the cockpit and the unidentified observer grasps the mount of the Lewis gun and stands in the gunners position leaning over Carter, talking to him, 1917-1918 (c).
The crew wear full flying clothing.
Mechanics stand ready to pull the propeller and start the engine.
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.