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Medal Bar of 13, Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, 1998/0274/D

Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. He became Air Officer Commanding in both Iraq and India in the 1930s.

Bar of 13 metal and enamel medals suspended from coloured ribbons, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAFM/Iain Duncan

Royal Warrant – Royal Flying Corps (Military Wing)

Library, In Storage, X008-0828

On 13 April 1912, King George V issued a Royal Warrant for a new service, the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), the direct predecessor to the Royal Air Force.

Front page of printed paper booklet with white page and black type, © RAF Museum

Pilots' flying log book of 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Audley Langford-Sainsbury, June 1917 (incomplete)

Archives, In Storage, B835

Pilot's flying log book recorded only five flying days, 15-20 June 2017 with No.41 Squadron.

Pilot's flying log book, Crown

Pilot's flying log book of 2nd Lieutenant Oliver Charles Pearson, 8 December 1916-9 September 1917

Archives, In Storage, AC97/93/258

After completing his flying training in the UK, which included time with No.68 Australian Squadron, Pearson was posted to France to Join no.70 Squadron in August 1917.

Pilot's flying log book, Crown

Pilot's flying log book of Captain Graham Knight Palmer RFC, 1916-1919

Archives, In Storage, B421

Captain Palmer of the Surrey Regiment gained his Royal Aero Club aviator's certificate at Catterick on 1 April 1916.

Pilot's flying log book of Captain Graham Knight Palmer RFC, 1916-1919 | B421

Recording of an interview with Air Commodore John Oliver, 29 April 1982

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/31

Interview with Air Commodore John Oliver, who served as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps and RAF during the First World War.

Image pending

Recording of an interview with Mr D E O Nicholson, 19 May 1971

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/30

Interview with Mr D E O Nicholson, who served in the Royal Flying Corps as a ground wireless operator in France and Italy during the First World War.

Image pending

Recording of an interview with Joseph Helingoe, 25 March 1976

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/20

Interview with Joseph Helingoe, who joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1915 and served as an aircraft mechanic and pilot with 11 and 83 Squadrons, flying FB5 and FE2b aircraft.

Image pending

Recording of an interview with Christopher Benjamin Henry Lefroy, 27 July 1978

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/26

Interview with Christopher Lefroy, who served as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force during the First World War before being taken prisoner.

Image pending

Recording of an interview with Wing Commander M.M. Kaye, 30 May 1977

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/23

Interview with Wing Commander M.M. Kaye, who trained as a pilot at Hendon and flew F.E.2bs with 18 Squadron Royal Flying Corps before being shot down and taken prisoner.

Image pending