Photograph album and scrap books of Group Captain Arthur Percy Besley, 1918-1941

Pages from a photograph album and three scrap books compiled by Group Captain Arthur Percy Besley. The photograph album pages relate to his flying training at the end of the First World War and the scrap books to his involvement with Barrage Balloons in the Second World War.

Pages from a photograph album relating to Group Captain Besley's flying training, 1918-1919, has a mix of aircraft, personnel, sports teams and aircraft crashes. Scrap books contain newspaper cuttings, photographs, magazine, telegrams and letters relating to No.10 Balloon Centre, No.924 Squadron and a visit to Gaythorne Works, Manchester. Single sheet, short manuscript biography.