Scrapbook containing letters, illustrations and photographs relating to an incident involving English aviators in World War I, 1914

Containers:

Folio-Box 33

Component identifier:

File 97

Content Summary:

The context and provenance of the two page scrapbook is unclear. Items are in French, English and Italian, and captioned in French.

Includes two scraps of fabric, presumably from an aircraft, one with a bullet hole; pencil sketch captioned 'A moment of a narrow escape over Berchem...Friday the 11th of Sept 1914 when a British naval (Bristol type) tractor biplane piloted by Captain Courtney (observer Flight-Lieut C F Beevor) was nearly brought down...'; illustration in pen and ink by K Kreyer of the assassination of a baron; manuscript account apparently by Beevor; two letters, both to Baron de Vriere, one from George Ashton; photograph one of one man, the other of a group of men in front of a plane labelled 'Commandant Chambors'; and published photograph of four French aviators.

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