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Swooping Down on a Taube (from The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals - Building Aircraft) by C.R.W. Nevinson, lithograph

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00844

Nevinson made this print in 1917 as part of an ambitious multi-artist lithographic project known as 'The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals' - a propagandist publishing scheme commissioned by the government’s Department of Information. For the 'Efforts' side of the series, nine artists each made six prints on assigned themes. Nevinson's theme was Building Aircraft, while others included Making Soldiers, Making Sailors (curiously there was no ‘Making Airmen’), Making Guns, and Building Ships. The aim of the series was to persuade people to contribute to the war effort, as serving personnel in the Armed Forces, factory workers or fabricators.

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Translation of message dropped by German air force to RAF in Middle East regarding prisoners of war, 1918

Archives, In Storage, A25

Translation was collected by Second Lieutenant George Deacon of No.111 Squadron.

Translation of message dropped by German air force to RAF in Middle East regarding prisoners of war, 1918 | A25

Taube Pursued by Commander Samson by C.R.W. Nevinson, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00842

In 1915, after volunteering as an ambulance driver in Dunkirk, Nevinson painted this imagined vision of Air Commodore Samson’s command. Samson’s Royal Naval Air Squadron had aggressively patrolled the French city against German reconnaissance.

CRW Nevinson abstract oil painting of a Taube aircraft being pursued, Copyright expired. / RAF Museum

Baron Richthofen Commemorative Medallion

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, X003-2035

Circular, matt silver with; Obverse - uniformed three-quarters facing bust of Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, encircled by RITTMEISTER MANFRED FRHR V RICHTHOFEN. Reverse - next to a gravestone, decorated with a knight's helmet with crest and mantling and a coat of arms and bearing the date 12 APRIL 1918, a standing eagle, its head raised in salute with the number 89 pierced by an arrow. Encircled by the words DER ROTE KAMPF FLIEGER. Signed by the artist at the base of gravestone.

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