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English: RFC mess song recorded by Royal Flying Corps 2nd Lieut. Francis Stewart Briggs on 9th May 1918 at RFC “No. 1 School of Aerial Navigation and Bomb Dropping” Stonehenge, Wiltshire, UK. Date
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The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was the air arm of the British Army before and during the First World War until it merged with the Royal Naval Air Service on 1 April 1918 to form the Royal Air Force. During the early part of the war, the RFC supported the British Army by artillery co-operation and photographic reconnaissance .
When the Royal Flying Corps became the Royal Air Force in April 1918, the unit became known as Royal Air Force Canada (RAF(C)). [3] During the last two years of the war 3,135 pilots and 137 observers trained in Canada and Texas for both the RFC and the new Royal Air Force (RAF). Of these trainees, 2,624 went to Europe for operational duty. [4]
The squadron became part of No. 80 Wing, which specialised in attacks on German airfields, on 1 July 1918, shortly after the foundation of the Royal Air Force on 1 April. Despite its short service at the front, the squadron claimed 147 victories for casualties of two killed in action, five wounded in action, and ten missing.
1 Sept 1917 – 1 April 1918 1 April 1918 – 1 February 1920 8 March 1937 – 1 May 1955 1 August 1955 – 28 September 1969 15 April 2024 – present: Country: United Kingdom: Branch: Royal Air Force: Part of: Air and Space Warfare Centre: Home station: Eglin AFB, Florida: Nickname(s) Weighty Eighty [1] Motto(s) "Strike True" [2] Battle honours
No. 40 Wing formed part of the Royal Air Force (RAF) Palestine Brigade during World War I and immediately after. It was established in October 1917 as 40th (Army) Wing, Royal Flying Corps (RFC), and become part of the RAF in April 1918, when the RFC merged with the Royal Naval Air Service.
Posted to No. 20 Squadron, flying the Bristol F.2b fighter, between 11 September 1917 and 23 March 1918 Kirkman was credited with eight aerial victories, all against Albatros D.Vs, with five driven down out of control, and three set on fire and destroyed. [1] On 18 December 1917 he was appointed a flight commander with the temporary rank of ...