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Royal Air Force – Military Training – Hastings 1918
Military Training & the beach – Hastings June 1918 From interviews conducted in 1992 with Jack Wilson. We got general military training at Hastings. It was old hat to me; I’d done it all with...
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My papers went in to transfer to the Royal Flying Corps – August 1916
We were always interested in aeroplanes and that as kids. We used to send to Gamages for parts and make them Billy and I. When we broke a part we tried and made it up again from the old parts. We also...
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John Arthur Wilson MM 1896-1992
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-hZfJ7YpRloM/Thlgyj0i3DI/AAAAAAAAGPo/vhCoCMhxDk4/s800/JAWilsonMM%2525201918.jpg 95 years later Houthulst Forest is used to first store then detonate the 200,000 bomb a...
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Shooting the Front. Terry Finnegan on the role of observers over the Western...
Fig. 1. Shooting the Front. Terry Finnegan gave a presentation based on his book ‘Shooting the Front’ to an audience, largely of Friends of the Imperial War Museum at the IWM on Wednesday 20th June....
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Slipping over the edge …
In my youth, like an idiot, I would sometimes ski off trail heading towards a seemingly tame gully. There was this time as I descended with too much confidence into a steep funnel that I realised...
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