Black Friday, ‘Bloody April’: The deat …
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During Bloody April one RFC airmen was killed, on average, every 18 hours. Friday April…
Category: Stories
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The high flying (and diving) Capt. Jack Allport.
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‘Shoreman’ becomes a high-flyer. Jack Manning Allport was born on the 13th of July 1895…
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1919 Air Race: Why didn’t Smithy fly the Kan …
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‘Two other Smiths, Ross and Keith, flew their Vickers Vimy out to Australia in 28…
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Capt. PG Taylor: ‘The doomed Rumpler’
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On the 20th AUG 1917, Lt. P.G. Taylor Shot down an German two-seat reconaissance aircraft.…
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Capt. Allport, MC: Air war over the Western Front
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Conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Allport’s citation for the Military Cross , published in…
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Local resident Norman Ellison’s Southern Cro …
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At 10.50 am, June 9, 1928, resident Norman Ellison was an eye-witness to one of…
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‘Bloody April’: Lt. Taylor survives
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2/Lt. ‘Bill’ Taylor joined 66 Squadron just before the Royal Flying Corps worst month of…
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Raglan St to RFC: Bill Taylor’s pilgrimage t …
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In June 1917 2/Lt. P.G. Taylor received devastating news. In 1960 he made a pilgrimage…
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Local resident Norman Ellison: A man behind the ir …
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Returned with grotesque wounds to his thigh and his legislation. NORMAN HYMAN HIRCH ELLISON Eldest…