robinsgt Posted 9 December , 2018 Share Posted 9 December , 2018 Several years ago I bought a handwritten book which was WEEKLY OPERATIONS REPORTS AIR TECHNICAL ORDER No. 62 1 March 1817 on the cover. Inside, arranged in alphabetical order are various details I presume about pilots etc. As an example there are about 70 names with A taking one line as an example from A`S I quote H P 3124 FLT J W ALCOCK dsc pow/30/10/17 Turkey ( hp) 2nd crew 1/9/17 Gulf of Xeros A/A fire. A further example from D`s which has 80 handwritten names and details quote Imbros "C" Flt 13/12/16 FSL Devlin with Sub Lt G E WRIGHT HF 3001. There are thousands of entries similar to these and hundreds of loose pages with other details. Written on a lot of the papers are details of Canadians with rank and home addresses . The book/papers could have belonged to a Mr Melton as there are also various letters addressed to him about flying in WW1. There are handwritten entries about Zeppelins an example H 12 No 8666 RNAS 34 May 24th 1917 Zeppelin 10 miles N E of TERSCHELLING Island 3000 feet x 300 yards Zeppelin threw out a smoke screen 1/2 (half) tray Among the hundreds of loose papers I quote RNAS 40 Mudros July 28 -Aug 3 The Handley Page has been tuned up, tested and is ready for duty.Only the old tyres are however available as yet and should any of them burst no further operations can be undertaken until the new ones arrive. On the 4th Aug quote 4th Aug 1917 The H Page whose tyres were already much worn and had been strengthened by fabric, burst three tyres in attempting to get off and the attack on PANDERMA had to be postponed. I am more interested in army life but surely this must be of interest to one of you guys. Robin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete-c Posted 9 December , 2018 Share Posted 9 December , 2018 13 minutes ago, robinsgt said: Several years ago I bought a handwritten book which was WEEKLY OPERATIONS REPORTS AIR TECHNICAL ORDER No. 62 1 March 1817 on the cover. Inside, arranged in alphabetical order are various details I presume about pilots etc. As an example there are about 70 names with A taking one line as an example from A`S I quote H P 3124 FLT J W ALCOCK dsc pow/30/10/17 Turkey ( hp) 2nd crew 1/9/17 Gulf of Xeros A/A fire. A further example from D`s which has 80 handwritten names and details quote Imbros "C" Flt 13/12/16 FSL Devlin with Sub Lt G E WRIGHT HF 3001. There are thousands of entries similar to these and hundreds of loose pages with other details. Written on a lot of the papers are details of Canadians with rank and home addresses . The book/papers could have belonged to a Mr Melton as there are also various letters addressed to him about flying in WW1. There are handwritten entries about Zeppelins an example H 12 No 8666 RNAS 34 May 24th 1917 Zeppelin 10 miles N E of TERSCHELLING Island 3000 feet x 300 yards Zeppelin threw out a smoke screen 1/2 (half) tray Among the hundreds of loose papers I quote RNAS 40 Mudros July 28 -Aug 3 The Handley Page has been tuned up, tested and is ready for duty.Only the old tyres are however available as yet and should any of them burst no further operations can be undertaken until the new ones arrive. On the 4th Aug quote 4th Aug 1917 The H Page whose tyres were already much worn and had been strengthened by fabric, burst three tyres in attempting to get off and the attack on PANDERMA had to be postponed. I am more interested in army life but surely this must be of interest to one of you guys. Robin Interesting indeed Robin. These details would seem to refer to Weekly Operations Reports that are held in TNA Kew. You state that these notes are handwritten - is there any chance of you uploading a page or two? They could well be original notes compiled prior to being typed up later. Peter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinsgt Posted 9 December , 2018 Author Share Posted 9 December , 2018 I will try to put some photo`s on tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete-c Posted 10 December , 2018 Share Posted 10 December , 2018 20 hours ago, robinsgt said: Several years ago I bought a handwritten book which was WEEKLY OPERATIONS REPORTS AIR TECHNICAL ORDER No. 62 1 March 1817 on the cover. Inside, arranged in alphabetical order are various details I presume about pilots etc. As an example there are about 70 names with A taking one line as an example from A`S I quote H P 3124 FLT J W ALCOCK dsc pow/30/10/17 Turkey ( hp) 2nd crew 1/9/17 Gulf of Xeros A/A fire. A further example from D`s which has 80 handwritten names and details quote Imbros "C" Flt 13/12/16 FSL Devlin with Sub Lt G E WRIGHT HF 3001. There are thousands of entries similar to these and hundreds of loose pages with other details. Written on a lot of the papers are details of Canadians with rank and home addresses . The book/papers could have belonged to a Mr Melton as there are also various letters addressed to him about flying in WW1. There are handwritten entries about Zeppelins an example H 12 No 8666 RNAS 34 May 24th 1917 Zeppelin 10 miles N E of TERSCHELLING Island 3000 feet x 300 yards Zeppelin threw out a smoke screen 1/2 (half) tray Among the hundreds of loose papers I quote RNAS 40 Mudros July 28 -Aug 3 The Handley Page has been tuned up, tested and is ready for duty.Only the old tyres are however available as yet and should any of them burst no further operations can be undertaken until the new ones arrive. On the 4th Aug quote 4th Aug 1917 The H Page whose tyres were already much worn and had been strengthened by fabric, burst three tyres in attempting to get off and the attack on PANDERMA had to be postponed. I am more interested in army life but surely this must be of interest to one of you guys. Robin Just found a reference to H 12 No. 8666 RNAS, as mentioned above. Aircraft No. 8666 started life as a Curtiss H.8. 'Large America'. It was re-engined with RR Eagles to become an H.12. On 24.5.1917 it fired at Zeppelin L40 10m NE of Terschelling, but the range was apparently too great. The 1/2 (half) tray could well refer to the amount of ammunition used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinsgt Posted 10 December , 2018 Author Share Posted 10 December , 2018 Please see 2 pics 1st is a page from the A`s 2nd is just a random page from one of hundreds of loose papers Robin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete-c Posted 11 December , 2018 Share Posted 11 December , 2018 Thanks for the images Robin. These would seem to be research notes, possibly transcribed from documents at TNA Kew by the Mr. Melton you mention. I've checked some of the details against my own records and they match up - yet some of the other details I haven't seen before. Obviously a work that took a considerable time to compile, but the exact reason for the compilation will, however, probably remain unknown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinsgt Posted 11 December , 2018 Author Share Posted 11 December , 2018 As well as the above replies I also received one in my ordinary e mail inbox. Not being very good with my laptop i deleted it thinking I would be able to read it here. It does not appear here and all I can remember is the guy said he was in some research group and would be interested in having the book. Can he please contact me again. Sorry about this but computers are still a mystery to an old man like me. ROBIN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 11 December , 2018 Share Posted 11 December , 2018 1 hour ago, robinsgt said: As well as the above replies I also received one in my ordinary e mail inbox. The email may have been a notification that someone sent you a Personal Message through the GWF. Ensure you are logged in to the Great War Forum, then click on the envelope/message icon at the top right hand corner of the GWF webpage to see if you have a personal message. Cheers Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete-c Posted 11 December , 2018 Share Posted 11 December , 2018 1 hour ago, robinsgt said: As well as the above replies I also received one in my ordinary e mail inbox. Not being very good with my laptop i deleted it thinking I would be able to read it here. It does not appear here and all I can remember is the guy said he was in some research group and would be interested in having the book. Can he please contact me again. Sorry about this but computers are still a mystery to an old man like me. ROBIN Sorry for the confusion Robin. It was me that sent you the PM yesterday - I've just sent another, together with my original message. I hope you pick it up OK. And thank you Maureen for your help. Peter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b3rn Posted 12 December , 2018 Share Posted 12 December , 2018 I also sent a PM Happy to help with digitising and making it available to other researchers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Bentley Posted 12 December , 2018 Share Posted 12 December , 2018 I know that pilots kept daily reports, but was there an overall daily "diary" kept by individual units. I am particularly interested in the RNAS in the Aegean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmeg Posted 14 December , 2018 Share Posted 14 December , 2018 (edited) there is the wonderful chap (Andrew Pentland) who has made available his spreadsheet of all the RFC records he has found- his webpage is http://www.airhistory.org.uk/rfc/contact.html and he is keen to obtain records. He probably has many of these as this looks like someone's research notes rather than originals but I'm sure he would be interested? A quick check of his spreadsheet shows no mention of greek pilot Argyoplpous so you do have extra inforamtion in those pages. Just out of interest- I was looking at another thread and someone is looking for an RNAS man surname MURRAY wonder if he is in there somewhere ? Edited 14 December , 2018 by Madmeg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 15 December , 2018 Share Posted 15 December , 2018 On 12/12/2018 at 21:22, Alan Bentley said: I am particularly interested in the RNAS in the Aegean. There was a recent topic about a new book In The Skies of Forgotten Courage: The RNAS and the RAF in the Adriatic and Albania 1917–1918 which includes a/s activity carried out by the Royal Naval Air Service in the Otranto Straits area, if this geographic area is of interest to you. Cheers Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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