William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse
Second Lieutenant William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse, Royal Flying Corps, was the first aviator to be awarded the Victoria Cross. Photo from The War Illustrated, 10 July 1915. Caption reads: The late Sec.-Lieut... More
Captain J G Overbury (6789669827)
10 Battalion, Middlesex Regiment Captain Overbury served throughout 1917 as a staff officer 3 class attached to the Royal Flying Corps. He subsequently served as a general staff officer 3 grade at the War Offic... More
Lieutenant Hedley Bruce New (8157428824)
4 Battalion, Essex Regiment He was attached to No 3 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. He was recorded as missing on 31 October 1917 aged 24. He is commemorated at the Arras Flying Service Memorial. Faces of the F... More
Two pilots at Joyce Green, England. May 1918, on the right is Captain ...
Two pilots at Joyce Green, England. May 1918, unidentified RAF pipot on the left, on the right is Captain James killed at Joyce Green in the same month, photo taken by Carroll H Bunch. "Transcription on reverse... More
Lionel Rees VC IWM Q 68027 during World War I
Photograph of Major Lionel Rees, Royal Flying Corps, a World War I Victoria Cross recipient.
Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor VC IWM Q 067596
Photograph of South African World War I Victoria Cross recipient and air ace Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor, Royal Flying Corps.
Captain John Everard Digby Neale (7697915960)
4 Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment Captain Neale was attached to the Royal Flying Corps. He was killed in a flying accident at Hounslow on 22 August 1917. He is buried at Welford Road Cemetery in Leicester. F... More
Gilbert Insall VC IWM Q 114632 during World War I
Photograph of Gilbert Stuart Martin Insall, Royal Flying Corps, British World War I Victoria Cross recipient.
William Middleton Wallace during World War I
Lieutenant William Middleton Wallace, 5th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, attached to the Royal Flying Corps
Lieutenant Philip Challinor Ellis (8097197814)
No 1 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps and Highland Light Infantry Lt Ellis served initially with the Highland Light Infantry before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps. Together with 2 Lieutenant C C Godwin, Lt... More
Harold Blackburn, MC - A black and white photo of a man in a military ...
Captain Harold Blackburn, Royal Flying Corps after award of the Military Cross in January 1916.
New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (191...
Lieutenant Van Zandt Stone, R.F.C., Eighty-Third Aero Squadron, Twenty-Third Section. Son of Charles Emerson and Ada Menzies (Dailey) Stone; was born in Andover, Mass., Sept. 14, 1893. He was educated at Phil... More
Frederick William Winterbotham during World War I
Frederick William Winterbotham. Public domain photograph, 20th-century military male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Second Lieutenant K F Nichol (6282373523)
Second Lieutenant K F Nichol, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collec... More
Aviation in Britain Before the First World War RAE-O791
Aviation in Britain Before the First World War A group of unnamed officers of the Royal Flying Corps stood in front of a monoplane.
Major G I Carmichael (6306248205)
Royal Air Force Major Carmichael earned a DSO. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.
Archibald Christie 1915
Colonel Archibald Christie, officer of the Royal Flying Corps, 1915
Noel William Ward Webb during World War I
From a press cutting of Captain Noel William Ward Webb MC and Bar. Unit: No. 70 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 16 August 1917 Missing in Action Western Front
GW Beatty and students
George William Beatty (far right) and unidentified colleague (far left) with six student pilots destined for the Royal Flying Corps at Hendon Aerodrome, Aug. 1916. Front centre is Lt. Norman A. Birks: others u... More
New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (191...
First Lieutenant Edward Milton Wilcox, A.S.A., U.S.A., Ninety-Ninth Squadron British R.A.F. Son of George C. and Gertrude (Smith) Wilcox; was born at Winsted, Conn., July 14, 1896. He was educated at the Winst... More
Aircraft and Balloons USED by Some of the Air Pioneers Who Were Contem...
Aircraft and Balloons USED by Some of the Air Pioneers Who Were Contemporary With Samuel Franklin Cody. A group of named officers of the Royal Flying Corps. These men were the first flying and administrative of... More
Studio portrait of WWI ACE Mansell Richard James
Studio portrait of WWI ACE Mansell Richard James
British Empire Tour 1922 Belcher
Colonel Archibald Christie (left) former officer of the Royal Flying Corps on the 1922 British Empire Expedition Tour
Dr. Llewellyn Woods Royal Flying Corps Scene
Catalog #: 09_02268 Title: Dr. Llewellyn Woods Royal Flying Corps Scene Date: c1918 Additional Information: Photos of WWI scenes from the colletion of Dr. Llewellyn Woods Tags: Dr. Llewellyn Woods Royal Flying ... More
First flying and administrative officers of the Royal Flying Corps RAE...
A group of officers of the Royal Flying Corps. These men were among the first flying and administrative officers of the RFC, and some of the first pilots ever qualified by the Royal Aero Club. The officers are ... More
Alan Jerrard VC IWM Q 68087 during World War I
Photograph of Alan Jerrard, a British World War I Victoria Cross recipient of the Royal Flying Corps. He is here as an officer of the South Staffordshire Regiment, with whom he served until August 1916.
Herbert Elliott Pearcein Royal Flying Corps Uniform - A black and whit...
Herbert Elliott Pearce (3/2/1880 - 14/3/1957) was an English poet from Gloucester. He published two books on poetry: "Humorous verse and stories in rhyme" Albert E Smith, Gloucester 1957 and "Poems and Rhymes... More
New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (191...
Second Lieutenant John F. Stafford, Jr. (1898-1918), Two Hundred Tenth Squadron, R.A.F. Killed in action, Sept. 29, 1918. Son of John and Maud C. (Birtwell) Stafford; was born at Fall River, Mass., May 5, 189... More
Arthur William Hammond while serving with the Engineers
Arthur William Hammond while serving with the Engineers Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lieutenant Louis A Strange (6282413687)
12 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps No 12 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, was formed at Netheravon on 14 February 1915, out of a flight of No 1 Squadron. The original intention was that one flight should have Avro 50... More
New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (191...
Observer David Clendon Hale (1894 - 1977), U.S.N. Air Service, Two Hundred Fourteenth Squadron, R.A.F. Son of Davis Campbell and Elizabeth (Sheen) Hale, of Cambridge, Mass.; was born in Longmont, Col., Aug. 18... More
New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (191...
First Lieutenant John Kent Blair, R.A.F., Fifty-Sixth Squadron. Son of George H. and Marion L. Blair; was born in Boston, Mass., May 8, 1894. He attended the Mechanic Arts High School, Boston, from which he gr... More
John Rutherford Gordon - France
John Gordon and Bill Staton (standing) with their Bristol Fighter, No 62 Squadron RFC, 1918, Cachy, France.
Daniel J. Sheehan, RFC 1917 during World War I
Image of Daniel Joseph Sheehan, born in Tralee, Ireland 14 November 1894, was a Second Lieutenant with the Royal Flying Corps, the eldest of three sons of Captain D. D. Sheehan MP. for Mid-Cork, Ireland, who ... More
4th Baron Garvagh of County Londonderry
A 1922 portrait of Leopold Ernest Stratford George Canning (1878–1956), 4th Baron Garvagh of County Londonderry, a title in the Peerage of Ireland.
2 Lieutenant Maurice Sharpe (6275892649)
21 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps Lieutenant Sharpe's aircraft was disabled on 28 October 1916 whilst flying over the front line during the Battle of the Somme. Lt Sharpe was reported missing and no further trac... More
John Aidan Liddell VC IWM Q 56193
John Aidan Liddell VC. Photograph taken during his service with the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders on the Western Front, showing Liddell in the front of a group.
Lieutenant-Colonel Bishop during World War I
Lieutenant-Colonel W A 'Billy' Bishop VC, of No 60 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, one of the leading fighter aces of the First World War, standing in front of his Nieuport 17 Scout at Filescamp, France
New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (191...
First Lieutenant Walter Amory, R.A.F., Fourth Squadron. Son of Copley and Mary (Russell) Amory; was born at Walpole, N.H., in June, 1899. He attended the Groton School, Groton, Mass., and in Aug., 1917, soon a... More