CCI Digest 835 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia by Nick Forder 2) Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia by peter.lambert@us.army.mil 3) Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia by gregory pos 4) Mesopotamia by "Alan Smith" 5) RE: Mesopotamia by Nick Forder 6) Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia by "Peter Wright" 7) Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia by peter.lambert@us.army.mil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:06:48 -0000 From: Nick Forder To: "'cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia Message-ID: <059A77A01B10D611B19C00065B19D2F33F8966@EXCHANGE> Peter My mistake. I read Macksey's biography of Hobart some months back and had a vague recollection that Tennant was flying the aircraft when Hobart was forced down.. I'll check the ref tonight. Does 'In the Side Shows' deal with Mespot ? or is there indeed a book by Tennant called something else (Bombing the Bedouins ?)? Nick -----Original Message----- From: Peter Wright [mailto:wright.brother@btopenworld.com] Sent: 03 March 2003 19:13 To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [CCI] Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia Nick, 'In the Side Shows' was authored by Wedgie Benn's dad, Capt Wedgwood Benn, later Viscount Stansgate. I mention this only in case someone is looking for Tennant's name as author. Peter W. --- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 07:20:38 -0600 From: peter.lambert@us.army.mil To: cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia Message-ID: <2b6caa12b6f7a7.2b6f7a72b6caa1@us.army.mil> I am not sure Bombing with the BEdouins relates to Meso...I have Tennant's book, but other autobiographical references to air ops in Meso are sketchy. Fortunately, I have some good m aterials from the PRO, but would always like to have more! PEte ----- Original Message ----- From: Nick Forder Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2003 2:16 am Subject: [CCI] Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia > Peter > > My mistake. I read Macksey's biography of Hobart some months back > and had a > vague recollection that Tennant was flying the aircraft when > Hobart was > forced down.. I'll check the ref tonight. Does 'In the Side Shows' > deal with > Mespot ? or is there indeed a book by Tennant called something > else (Bombing > the Bedouins ?)? > > Nick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Wright [wright.brother@btopenworld.com] > Sent: 03 March 2003 19:13 > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [CCI] Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia > > > Nick, 'In the Side Shows' was authored by Wedgie Benn's dad, > Capt Wedgwood > Benn, later Viscount Stansgate. I mention this only in case > someone is > looking for Tennant's name as author. Peter W. -- > - > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 15:25:10 +0000 From: gregory pos To: Subject: Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia Message-ID: Peter I have just looked through my library relating to the Middle East and found a few items which could prove useful in your research: 1. Pilot's Handbook of the Cairo-Baghdad Route 1923. 2. Notes for Pilots Reconnoitring Tribal Areas in Iraq - A.H.Q Iraq Command Oct 1928 - "For Official Use Only" 3. Report on the Operations carried out in the Southern Desert in connection with the "Iraq-Najd Borders" November 1927 - May 1928 including four maps issued by Air Ministry December 1928 marked "Confidential - For Official Use Only". Greg gregpos@dial.pipex.com > From: peter.lambert@us.army.mil > Reply-To: cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu > Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:32:56 -0500 (EST) > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [CCI] Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia > > I am not sure Bombing with the BEdouins relates to Meso...I have Tennant's > book, but other autobiographical references to air ops in Meso are sketchy. > Fortunately, I have some good m aterials from the PRO, but would always like > to have more! > > PEte > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Nick Forder > Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2003 2:16 am > Subject: [CCI] Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia > >> Peter >> >> My mistake. I read Macksey's biography of Hobart some months back >> and had a >> vague recollection that Tennant was flying the aircraft when >> Hobart was >> forced down.. I'll check the ref tonight. Does 'In the Side Shows' >> deal with >> Mespot ? or is there indeed a book by Tennant called something >> else (Bombing >> the Bedouins ?)? >> >> Nick >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Peter Wright [wright.brother@btopenworld.com] >> Sent: 03 March 2003 19:13 >> To: Multiple recipients of list >> Subject: [CCI] Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia >> >> >> Nick, 'In the Side Shows' was authored by Wedgie Benn's dad, >> Capt Wedgwood >> Benn, later Viscount Stansgate. I mention this only in case >> someone is >> looking for Tennant's name as author. Peter W. -- >> - >> > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:19:28 -0000 From: "Alan Smith" To: "CCI List" Subject: Mesopotamia Message-ID: <000e01c2e269$d4bd1480$1cf36251@aero> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C2E269.D48318C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Another reference is The Official History of Australia In The War of = 1914-1918 Volume VIII Australian Flying Corps by F.M. Cutlack admittedly = from the Aussie point of view. Alan 4253 ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C2E269.D48318C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Another reference is The Official = History of=20 Australia In The War of 1914-1918 Volume VIII Australian Flying Corps by = F.M.=20 Cutlack admittedly from the Aussie point of view.
 
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------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C2E269.D48318C0-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:26:48 -0000 From: Nick Forder To: "'cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: Mesopotamia Message-ID: <059A77A01B10D611B19C00065B19D2F33F8987@EXCHANGE> And Midlands Counties have a copy, albeit it both secondhand and a paperback. Nick -----Original Message----- From: Alan Smith [mailto:a.n.smith@ntlworld.com] Sent: 04 March 2003 16:21 To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [CCI] Mesopotamia This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C2E269.D48318C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Another reference is The Official History of Australia In The War of = 1914-1918 Volume VIII Australian Flying Corps by F.M. Cutlack admittedly = from the Aussie point of view. Alan 4253 ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C2E269.D48318C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Another reference is The Official = History of=20 Australia In The War of 1914-1918 Volume VIII Australian Flying Corps by = F.M.=20 Cutlack admittedly from the Aussie point of view.
 
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------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C2E269.D48318C0-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:23:03 -0000 From: "Peter Wright" To: Subject: Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia Message-ID: <000501c2e283$9c0c2530$eb5f8751@NELLIE> Nick, Capt Benn's book does not really cover Mespot, rather the Adriatic, Aegean, Gallipoli, Palestine, Arabia, and Egypt. I'm not sure that Tennant wrote any other book, but you have set me thinking! Peter W. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Forder" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 8:16 AM Subject: [CCI] Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia > Peter > > My mistake. I read Macksey's biography of Hobart some months back and had a > vague recollection that Tennant was flying the aircraft when Hobart was > forced down.. I'll check the ref tonight. Does 'In the Side Shows' deal with > Mespot ? or is there indeed a book by Tennant called something else (Bombing > the Bedouins ?)? > > Nick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Wright [mailto:wright.brother@btopenworld.com] > Sent: 03 March 2003 19:13 > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [CCI] Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia > > > Nick, 'In the Side Shows' was authored by Wedgie Benn's dad, Capt Wedgwood > Benn, later Viscount Stansgate. I mention this only in case someone is > looking for Tennant's name as author. Peter W. --- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 15:26:51 -0600 From: peter.lambert@us.army.mil To: cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia Message-ID: <2e0457d2e073f1.2e073f12e0457d@us.army.mil> >From all the WWI Aviation bibliography's that I have encountered, TEnnant's only book is In the Clouds Above Baghdad, and its reprint by Battery Press in the 1990s. One book I would love to see reprinted somehow is From Blandford to Baghdad. I have yet to see this in the antiquarian book market, and have not seen it in any of the libraries I have been to. Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Wright Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2003 1:25 pm Subject: [CCI] Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia > Nick, Capt Benn's book does not really cover Mespot, rather the > Adriatic,Aegean, Gallipoli, Palestine, Arabia, and Egypt. I'm not > sure that Tennant > wrote any other book, but you have set me thinking! > Peter W. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nick Forder" > To: "Multiple recipients of list" > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 8:16 AM > Subject: [CCI] Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia > > > > Peter > > > > My mistake. I read Macksey's biography of Hobart some months > back and had > a > > vague recollection that Tennant was flying the aircraft when > Hobart was > > forced down.. I'll check the ref tonight. Does 'In the Side > Shows' deal > with > > Mespot ? or is there indeed a book by Tennant called something else > (Bombing > > the Bedouins ?)? > > > > Nick > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter Wright [wright.brother@btopenworld.com] > > Sent: 03 March 2003 19:13 > > To: Multiple recipients of list > > Subject: [CCI] Re: RFC/RAF in Mesopotamia > > > > > > Nick, 'In the Side Shows' was authored by Wedgie Benn's dad, Capt > Wedgwood > > Benn, later Viscount Stansgate. I mention this only in case > someone is > > looking for Tennant's name as author. Peter W. > --- > > ------------------------------ End of CCI Digest 835 *********************