Air force lives
Subtitle: a guide for family historians
By: Phil Tomaselli
Series: How your ancestors lived; How your ancestors lived
Publisher: Pen & Sword
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781848847439
Subjects: Sources; Biography; Airmen; World War, 1939-1945; Female Participation; Handbooks, manuals; Genealogy; Archival resources; Military records; Armed Forces; Military participation; Female; Great Britain. Royal Air Force; Great Britain; Great Britain. Royal Navy. Women's Royal Naval Service (1917-1919)
Description: What was it like to serve as an airman in the Second World War, as a pilot, a bomb aimer, or aerial gunner, or as a trainee pilot in 1913, a Zeppelin chaser during the First World War, or serve as a WREN fitter in the Fleet Air Arm or as a member of the ground crew who are so often overlooked in the history of Britain's air arm? And how can you find out about an individual, an ancestor whose service career is a gap in your family's history? Phil Tomaselli, in this readable and instructive book, shows you how this can be done. He describes in fascinating detail the careers of a group air force personnel from all branches and levels of the service.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Abbreviations and websites; title: Introduction; title: A brief history of the Air Forces featured in this book; title: Chapter 1. Early flying experiences in the Royal Naval Air Service; title: Reginald Bone; title: Chapter 2. A military medal with the Royal Flying Corps; title: David Prosser Hepburn; title: Chapter 3. Air war in the Arctic circle; title: Bertram Guy Blampied; title: Chapter 4. Royal Flying Corps, Auxiliary Air Force and Second World War flying instructor; title: Wilfred Bennett Beale; title: Chapter 5. Battle of Britain pilot; title: Guy Marsland; title: Chapter 6. From the North-West Frontier to Singapore, forty years in the RAF; title: Ernest Edgar Chambers and Mary Craig Chambers; title: Chapter 7. An Australian air gunner with bomber command; title: Victor Charles Reid; title: Chapter 8.; title: A gallant pathfinder crew; title: Chapter 9. A WREN in the Fleet Air Arm; title: Janet Pegden; title: Index.