CCI Digest 817 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Peg Legs by H Giblin 2) peg legs/arms/eyes etc! by "John Grech" 3) RE: peg legs/arms/eyes etc! by Nick Forder 4) Into Thin Air by GaGin1@aol.com 5) Re: Into Thin Air by "John Grech" 6) Re: Airmen with Disabilities by "johnbarfoot" 7) Another Newspaper Archive Link by Karen Schell ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:13:58 -0500 From: H Giblin To: "INTERNET:cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Re: Peg Legs Message-ID: <200302130414_MC3-1-29E6-3FFE@compuserve.com> Owen Casualties Of course you will have visited the CWGC site for next-of-kin details, age, etc.??? Where there are none - as with Brandt - the next place to look are the Calandars of Probate (remembering to look, if necessary, for perhaps several years beyond the known year of death). The 'Air 76s' and the 'Officers Files' at the PRO are, quite often, productive. School, College and University registers can be a great help - the only problems are, access, (I've built a 'libray' of them over the years) and the task itself is long and extremely boring! For what it is worth, there is an excellent photograph (wearing his QSA and KSA ribbons) as well as a good write-up on M A Black in Volume IV of 'Memorials of Rugebians'. Good luck Hal ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:30:44 -0000 From: "John Grech" To: "Discussion group" Subject: peg legs/arms/eyes etc! Message-ID: <002701c2d34a$f7223510$1cc00650@your9al5izx2s9> So far we have the following, British & Commonwealth WW1 AVM R.L.G. Marix CBE DSO J O Leach 56 Sqdn lost his leg 7 May 1917 Frank Alberry 2 AFC lost leg in infantry Wing Commander D. S. Gordon lost leg, Leeche Canadian no other details Major Lionel W B Rees VC (shot in leg but did not lose it, so I will put him in the gammy leg class) Sydney 'Timbertoes' Carlin 74 sqn lost leg Alberon Lord Lucas of Sqn. 22 had a wooden leg Arthur Whitten Brown - gammy leg Ferdinand Maurice West VC - lost a leg on 10/8/1918, but did not return to flying in WW1 Mick Mannock Eye? WW2 Douglas Bader two legs Colin Hodkingson's two legs H M Massey (SBO at Stalag Luft III in WW2 German WW1 Walter Karjus Jasta 11 etc, one arm Viktor Petermann of JG 52. one arm WW2 Hans-Ulrich Rudel lost both legs in the late stages of WW2 Ernesto Botto lost a leg in Spain and continued to fly throughout WW2 Coli - one eye Russian French Nungesser - more tin and pins than Barry Sheene, or so I'm told. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:06:00 -0000 From: Nick Forder To: "'cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: peg legs/arms/eyes etc! Message-ID: <059A77A01B10D611B19C00065B19D2F33F87D5@EXCHANGE> John Massey was a WW1 and 'tween the wars pilot. He was originally a Sherwood Forester. Won his DSO for bombing natives (in Iraq ?)who were doing their best to kill the 1st Lincolns. I seems to recall that he wasn't supposed to be on the aircraft (Whitley ?) when it was shot down. Hal included him 'Under the Guns of the German Aces'. I think that his character is called 'Ramsay' in 'The Great Escape'(he is easily spotted - he is the actor wearing his medal ribbon bar upside down !) Nick WW2 Douglas Bader two legs Colin Hodkingson's two legs H M Massey (SBO at Stalag Luft III in WW2 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:52:11 EST From: GaGin1@aol.com To: cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu Subject: Into Thin Air Message-ID: <4d.2bb2a578.2b7d192b@aol.com> --part1_4d.2bb2a578.2b7d192b_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear All, Found the answer to my question on Hampstead Hospital on p. 34 of Into Thin Air, by Gibson and Harrison. The Special RFC Medical Board was moved from the Hotel Cecil to new HQ at Mount Vernon in Hampstead London. . have to get out my map and search for Mt. Vernon, unless anyone recognizes it? Now I hope I have same luck with "let's drink the whole world down!" LanniePS anyone out there up on hypoxia? --part1_4d.2bb2a578.2b7d192b_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear All,
Found the answer to my question on Hampstead  Hospital on p. 34 of = Into Thin Air, by Gibson and Harrison. The Special RFC Medical Board was= moved from the Hotel Cecil to new HQ at Mount Vernon in Hampstead London. .= have to get out my map and search for Mt. Vernon, unless anyone recognizes=20= it?
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LanniePS anyone out there up on hypoxia? --part1_4d.2bb2a578.2b7d192b_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:07:22 -0000 From: "John Grech" To: Subject: Re: Into Thin Air Message-ID: <007a01c2d379$fde40d40$1cc00650@your9al5izx2s9> Lannie, Its just off Heath Street , Hampstead John ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Multiple recipients of list" Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 3:53 PM Subject: [CCI] Into Thin Air > > --part1_4d.2bb2a578.2b7d192b_boundary > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Dear All, > Found the answer to my question on Hampstead Hospital on p. 34 of Into Thin > Air, by Gibson and Harrison. The Special RFC Medical Board was moved from the > Hotel Cecil to new HQ at Mount Vernon in Hampstead London. . have to get out > my map and search for Mt. Vernon, unless anyone recognizes it? > Now I hope I have same luck with "let's drink the whole world down!" > LanniePS anyone out there up on hypoxia? > > --part1_4d.2bb2a578.2b7d192b_boundary > Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Dear All,
> Found the answer to my question on Hampstead  Hospital on p. 34 of = > Into Thin Air, by Gibson and Harrison. The Special RFC Medical Board was= > moved from the Hotel Cecil to new HQ at Mount Vernon in Hampstead London. .= > have to get out my map and search for Mt. Vernon, unless anyone recognizes=20= > it?
>     Now I hope I have same luck with "let's drink the whole w= > orld down!"
> LanniePS anyone out there up on hypoxia? > > --part1_4d.2bb2a578.2b7d192b_boundary-- > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:40:43 -0000 From: "johnbarfoot" To: Subject: Re: Airmen with Disabilities Message-ID: <000201c2d39f$ebf72a60$d8926fd4@oemcomputer> ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Multiple recipients of list Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 6:50 PM Subject: [CCI] Re: Airmen with Disabilities Lannie, It was a second cousin Mary Gibson who wrote WARNEFORD, VC published by Friends of the Fleet Air Arm Museum 1979. A small hardback but very well illustrated, I have found it valuable for research on more than one occasion. That WWI aviation film script by Robert Loraine is news to me, not surprised it was binned though. Back in the 1930's Douglas Fairbanks jnr was to play the lead in a movie about Frank Luke, but it had no love interest. Ditto a film about von Richthofen planned about the same time was dropped for the same reason. More recently, this side of WW2 Gregory Peck donned RNAS uniform to star in THE BELLS IN HELL, but only for the stills unfortunately as this proposed epic of bombing Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshafen in November 1914 never got off the ground, but I believe some of the replica 504's are still flying. To save boring the Lads any further old mate, I would be pleased to chat off line as you suggested. Warm regards from a still chilly Essex, John B. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 20:15:23 -0500 From: Karen Schell To: cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu Subject: Another Newspaper Archive Link Message-ID: <3E4C432B.F1D25B37@sympatico.ca> Hello All, Thought you might be interested in a site that was just brought to my attention: The British Library http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/ Amazing. They have a "Collection of the Week" which is The Great War right now. You can also search the archive by keyword. If the "Click Here" doesn't work - your Netscape browser probibly isn't supported. Try opening it up with Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher. Have fun!! Karen ------------------------------ End of CCI Digest 817 *********************