Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps
Organization
Historical Note
The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was the air arm of the British Army before and during the First World War, until it merged with the Royal Naval Air Service on 1 April 1918 to form the Royal Air Force.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Lionel Cherry Gilmour World War I Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2019-01-30
Abstract
The collection is comprised of a small photograph album, loose photographs, a prisoner of war diary, and assorted research documents pertaining to the World War I service and prisoner of war (POW) experience of Lieutenant Lionel Cherry Gilmour (1891-1973), pilot of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and its predecessor, the Royal Flying Corps (RFC).
Dates:
1915-2008; Majority of material found within 1968-2008
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
William James World War I Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2001-02-15
Abstract
The collection contains four photographs of fighter pilots who served during World War I and one photograph of a Fokker Dr.I Triplane (F.I).
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1914-1918
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Alan Lonsdale Patterson Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2021-08-03-A
Overview
Alan Lonsdale Patterson worked extensively in the field of aviation from the 1920s to the 1980s. Throughout his career he worked as a barnstormer, pilot and established multiple companies that facilitated the sale of aircraft and aeronautical equipment, predominately between companies based in the United States and China. The collection represents both his professional and personal life through correspondence, photographs, business records, clippings and audiovisual materials, as well as...
Dates:
1876-2021; Majority of material found within 1920-1981
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Eric G. Peter Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2010-10-18
Abstract
The collection consists of photographs, military personnel documents, and wartime ephemera related to the Royal Air Force career of Eric G. Peter during and after World War I.
Dates:
circa 1912-1962 (bulk dates 1918-1919); Majority of material found within 1918 - 1919
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Kurt Zwar Photograph Collection
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2014-09-24
Contents of the Collection
The collection is comprised of forty-two (42) black-and-white photographs depicting aircraft and military personnel of World War I and World War II. The photographs were purchased by Zwar; no personal connection to the subjects of the photographs is known. There is also one piece of ephemera, a "Smileage Book" which holds ration coupons for "military entertainments."The photographs vary in size, from 3x5 to 6x8". They feature WWI and WWII aircraft, in the ground, in flight, and a...
Dates:
circa 1910s-1940s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Additional filters:
- Subject
- World War, 1914-1918 4
- photograph albums 3
- Air pilots, Military 2
- Aircraft accidents 2
- Airplanes, Military 2
- Avro 504 2
- Fighter pilots 2
- Fokker Dr.I Triplane (F.I) 2
- Sopwith Camel Family 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- clippings (information artifacts) 2
- de Havilland (Airco) D.H.9 2
- diaries 2
- maps (documents) 2
- photographic postcards 2
- printed ephemera 2
- 16mm (photographic film size) 1
- 8mm (photographic film size) 1
- Air pilots 1
- Airplane engines 1
- Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8 1
- Bangkok (Thailand) 1
- Barnstorming 1
- Beech 17R Staggerwing 1
- Biplanes 1
- Bristol Fighter F.2B (Brisfit) 1
- Bristol M.1C Monoplane Scout 1
- China 1
- Curtiss JN-4D Jenny 1
- England 1
- Fiji 1
- Flight training 1
- Fokker D.VII (V.18) 1
- Fokker D.VIII (V.26/2, V.28, E.V) 1
- France 1
- GAC Model 102 Aristocrat 1
- Germany 1
- Gotha G.V 1
- Gotha LD 6 1
- Guling (China) 1
- Halberstadt CL.II 1
- Halberstadt CL.IV 1
- Handley Page O/400 (H.P.12) 1
- Hankou (Wuhan, China) 1
- Hannover CL.II 1
- Hong Kong (China) 1
- Jiddah (Saudi Arabia) 1
- Junkers J 1 1
- Junkers Ju 52/3m (Three Engine) Family 1
- Junkers Ju 52/3mb 1
- Martinsyde F.4 Buzzard 1
- Mexico 1
- Mohawk Model M-1-C New Pinto 1
- Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) 1
- Nieuport 17 1
- Nieuport 28 C1 1
- Pfalz C.I 1
- Pfalz D.VIII 1
- Pfalz D.XII 1
- Prisoners of war 1
- Propaganda 1
- Riyāḍ al-Khabrāʼ (Saudi Arabia) 1
- Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 1
- Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2b 1
- Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 1
- Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 1
- Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a 1
- SPAD XIII (S.13) 1
- Sablatnig SF 7 1
- Shanghai (China) 1
- Short S.106 Type (Admiralty Type 184; Short Two-Two-Five) 1
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 1
- Skywriting 1
- Sopwith Camel F.1 1
- Sopwith Dolphin (5.F.1) 1
- Sopwith Pup 1
- Sopwith Snipe (7.F.1) 1
- Spartan (OK) C-4 Family 1
- War photographers 1
- Waterhouse (Aircraft) Cruzair Monoplane 1
- airline maps 1
- articles 1
- audiocassettes 1
- biographies (literary works) 1
- blueprints (reprographic copies) 1
- business cards 1
- business records 1
- contracts 1
- correspondence 1
- de Havilland (Airco) D.H.4 1
- de Havilland (Airco) D.H.5 1
- de Havilland (Airco) D.H.9A 1
- glass plate negatives 1
- lithographs 1
- logs (records) 1
- manuals (instructional materials) 1
- manuscripts (documents) 1
- military records 1
- minutes (administrative records) 1 + ∧ less
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