posted on 2024-02-23, 23:00authored byGreat War Archive Project Team
<p dir="ltr">These are the letters home of a young man from New Brighton who was taught to fly in the R.F.C. and then served as a pilot on the Western Front, in Italy, then again on the Western Front and finally in the Army of Occupation in Cologne. The correspondence was preserved by his twin sister, the main recipient, until her death in 2001 at the age of 103.</p>
<p>The Letters:</p>
<p>1915 and 1916: New Brighton, pg. 7<br>
1917<br>
January: Inns of Court, Berkhamsted 14<br>
February: Berkhamsted 14<br>
March: Berkhamsted; R.F.C, Reading 19<br>
April: Catterick 29<br>
June: Catterick; Tadcaster 41<br>
July: Tadcaster; Catterick 55<br>
August: Catterick; Turnberry 66<br>
September: Catterick; Spittlegate; Brooklands 76<br>
October: Hursley Park, Winchester; Western Front 81<br>
November: Western Front; Italy 89<br>
December: Italy 94<br>
1918<br>
January: Italy; Lake Down, Salisbury 110<br>
February: Lake Down 112<br>
March “ May: Hospital, Wales and Liverpool 113<br>
June “ July: Lake Down 122<br>
August: Lake Down; Western Front 136<br>
Sept. “ November: Western Front 146<br>
December: Western Front; Cologne 186<br>
1919<br>
January “ March: Cologne 189</p>
<p><br>Editor's Comment:<br>
Numerous scanned documents and a large number of photographs of people and aircraft throughout.</p>