Photograph showing an unidentified pilot, wearing flying helmet and goggles, sitting in the pilots cockpit of a Royal Aircraft Factory RE8 reconnaisance aircraft named Dorothy, close up view of left fuselage, 1917-1918 (c).
The pilot turns to face the camera and the Vickers machine gun can be seen mounted on the fuselage.
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.