CCI Digest 822 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Researcher at P.R.O. by "Brian.E.Hall" 2) Hinchliffe had one eye ! by Nick Forder 3) Cyril Foggin by Nick Forder 4) Re: Researcher at P.R.O. by GaGin1@aol.com 5) Gotha raids on the UK by "Peter Wright" 6) RE: Gotha raids on the UK by Nick Forder ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 07:29:27 -0500 From: "Brian.E.Hall" To: "cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Re: Researcher at P.R.O. Message-ID: <200302180729_MC3-1-2AF0-E2E6@compuserve.com> In the past I have used Bob O'Hara as he specialises in Military subjects. He is doing work for me at the present. The main reason for the choice was that he lives within walking distance of the PRO! His email address is R.W.OHara >INTERNET:searcher@dircon.co.uk. I should be grateful if you let me know how you get on and who you eventually decide to commission to do your researching. Brian.E.Hall. Alton, Hampshire, UK using OzWin II v 2.33 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:49:39 -0000 From: Nick Forder To: "Cci (E-mail)" Subject: Hinchliffe had one eye ! Message-ID: <059A77A01B10D611B19C00065B19D2F33F8839@EXCHANGE> Captain W G Roy Hinchliffe was an Instone pilot in 1922. He had been wounded in the eye during the Great War and wore an eye-patch to cover the disfigurement. To quote Harry Harper (Daily Mail Air Correspondent) "About Hinchliffe's piloting of an aeroplane there was something - some smooth, masterly power - which definitely put him in a class by himself... Though he was such a superb pilot, Hinchliffe was never satisfied with his own flying. He was always trying to improve his take-offs and landings, always seeking to make some new adition to his amzing repetoire of trick flying" (My Fifty Years in Flying). Nick ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:53:59 -0000 From: Nick Forder To: "Cci (E-mail)" Subject: Cyril Foggin Message-ID: <059A77A01B10D611B19C00065B19D2F33F883B@EXCHANGE> Cyril Foggin, brother-in-law of Montague Glew and supposed original owner of the 1912 Blackburn Monoplane now at Shuttleworth, lost an eye (while serving with 3 Squadron ?). He was killed in a Crossley tourer crash while attached to a squadron in France to gain up-to-date experience before taking command of a squadron. I think that the driver of the Crossley (Scholte ?) had a wooden leg (which was broken in the crash). Nick ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:35:06 EST From: GaGin1@aol.com To: cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Researcher at P.R.O. Message-ID: <171.1ad8f594.2b83acaa@aol.com> Hello, I would be grateful to Bob Pearson if he could get in touch with me off-line. Sorry, I have temporarily misplaced his "handle." Lannie Liggera ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:56:16 -0000 From: "Peter Wright" To: Subject: Gotha raids on the UK Message-ID: <001d01c2d77f$80332890$66678351@NELLIE> Everyone, Does anyone know of a source of finding the crew names of German aircraft shot down or crashing in this country during WW1? In particular, a Gotha force-landed near Sturry in Kent on 6/7 December 1917, the crew injured but surviving. One crew member was believed to be Ltn der Reserve Franz Schulte, who ended up in a PoW Camp at Skipton and finally succumbed to the influenza epidemic of 1918. It would be useful to have an answer to the first sentence of this message, if not all of it. Thanks! Peter Wright. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:26:46 -0000 From: Nick Forder To: "'cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: Gotha raids on the UK Message-ID: <059A77A01B10D611B19C00065B19D2F33F884C@EXCHANGE> Peter Presumably the Grub St book on German casualties doesn't cover this area ? The bodies are buried at Cannock Chase, with the Zepp mass graves carrying a list of names. I assume that the CWGC (? or similar) has registers of German graves ? The omnipresent Kevin Kelly undertook some research in to German POWs in this country, as an offshoot to research into RFC/RNAS/RAF POWs. I don't know the details of what he found, but I do know that he compiles a library of books on the subject (I contributed to it !). I know that there are some lists of POWs held at Donnington, and a Derby photographer became a 'semi official' camp photographer. There was a POW camp near here at Leigh (about which there is a small A5 booklet - again, my copy went to Kevin !). The Red Cross published monthly lists of 'missing' for the British Army (one of the 1917 editions was reprinted - I bought a copy for Derby Museum)and, as an international organisation, should have done the same for the Germans. Nick Everyone, Does anyone know of a source of finding the crew names of German aircraft shot down or crashing in this country during WW1? In particular, a Gotha force-landed near Sturry in Kent on 6/7 December 1917, the crew injured but surviving. One crew member was believed to be Ltn der Reserve Franz Schulte, who ended up in a PoW Camp at Skipton and finally succumbed to the influenza epidemic of 1918. It would be useful to have an answer to the first sentence of this message, if not all of it. Thanks! Peter Wright. ------------------------------ End of CCI Digest 822 *********************