Lot 229

World War I - c. 400 Royal Flying Corps related photographs of N.E. France,







Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 September 2013 at 12:00 BST
£475
Description
A collection of silver prints of RAF personnel and operations, mainly in NE France in World War I, from 40x60mm. to 140x200mm., including equipment such as machine guns, RAF planes showing gun carriages & bombs, &c., ruined towns and villages, war damage in Tournai, Lille, Aulnoye, Valenciennes, La Bassée & Arras, aerial reconnaissance photographs, RAF motorised vehicles, guns in action, disabled tank, cemetaries, some captioned in the negative H.Q. 54th Wing 9, telegraphic equipment, some dated 1918-1919, includes a few duplicates






