 | Volume 40 Number 1 is complete and will
be with most of you by mid March. There's been a change to the cover
design - first in quite a few years - so the PrePress team will be
interested to hear what you think! Content, as always, is an eclectic
and fascinating mix ...
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now you can read here on the web site!
- Editorial
- Fabric - reader feedback
- Recce - research resources
- Bookshelf - latest reviews
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Journals are published at the end of February,
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be too surprised if publication can sometimes be up to a month
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| Nieuports in RNAS, RFC and RAF Service |
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This truly superb volume contains 176 pages, with 285 original photographs,
many never previously published.
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Also there's 16 pages of scale drawings and tables
- plus no less then 36 pages of colour artwork and profiles.
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Launched at the Cross & Cockade International
AGM in 2007.
Only a few copies now left - and a reprint is unlikely.
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Available to buy online
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| London Meetings |
Jeff is working hard to organise a fresh set of events for 2009. No
dates yet - but he's confident we will have a schedule for you soon!
The venue for the London meetings is the Ward Room of HMS
President, the ex-WW1 "Q" Ship (known in 1918 as HMS
Saxifrage) moored on the Embankment near Temple underground
station.
Any questions to Jeff Hargrave on london@crossandcockade.com
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Back Issues. All
back issues are being scanned, and some are already available for sale
on CD on-line as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. All will be available, in time!
You can now also buy individual issues online (both in print
and on CD) rather than
just complete volumes - and prices have been reduced.
Back Issue Sales
... and if you want FREE access to
either the Article Index, or the FULL index of all
issues of the journal since 1970, check out our Indexes
page.
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| Winged Victor
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biography of VM Yeates by Gordon Atkin
Winged Victor is a biography of Victor Maslin Yeates, a World War One Sopwith Camel pilot with
Nos 46 & 80 Squadrons, whose novel Winged Victory is widely considered to be one of the classics on aerial warfare in the Great War.
Buy online through Cross &
Cockade
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| Ben-My-Chree
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The story of an Isle of Man steamer that went to war in 1914 as a pioneering seaplane carrier and never came
home, by Ian Burns.
This new full-length study follows Ben-my-Chree from launch to salvage, examining her role in the growth of naval aviation, and introduces the outstanding men who served in her; from Commodore Keig of the IoMSPC, yachtsman and author Erskine Childers, to Squadron Commander Charles Rumney Samson of the Royal Naval Air Service, her last Captain, and the heroic aircrew who flew her floatplanes.
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This absorbing volume traces the extraordinary career of an Isle of Man Steam Packet Company ship, the third to carry the Ben-my-Chree name, but the only one to become an aircraft carrier!
Having entered passenger service between Liverpool and Douglas in 1908, on the outbreak of the First World War it was taken over by the Royal Navy and converted into a seaplane carrier, finally being lost to enemy action in the Mediterranean in 1917.
This very complete history of the ship concentrates especially on the pioneering role in the navy that made it famous, and the related naval operations. An extraordinary collection of photographs of the ship itself, related vessels, aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service and the enemy, personnel, vehicles, maps and diagrams complements the text, the result of some 30 years of intermittent research by the author. Although there are only two pages of colour in the book itself (a Turkish officer’s graphic
water colours of the shelling that ended Ben-my-Chree’s life) clever use has been made of the front and back covers to present a general-arrangement drawing of the ship as fitted out in 1915, two more maps and four full-colour side elevations of aircraft connected with the ship’s activities.
Any self-respecting student of First World War naval aviation should have this volume in his collection.
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| 2009 Cross & Cockade Calendar
Continuing our success, here is the 2009 edition - in my view
the best yet. For the first time ever we've printed a second run of
calendars. However, these have now also all been sold, and we won't be
re-printing again for 2009.
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Overseas
Surface Mail |
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| British Air Services Memorial
Until recently there was no monument specifically to commemorate the eight thousand
men
and women who fell while serving in the British and Commonwealth
flying services in WW1. The society is proud to
support an appeal to put that right:
St Omer Memorial Appeal
As many of you will have seen on national television news over the
weekend of 11th September 2004, the memorial has been unveiled in
great style - and it looks superb! Fundraising is still continuing to
guarantee that the memorial will be properly maintained and cared for
over the coming years - so please support this cause, which should be
close to the hearts of each of us.
More details at:
RAF Personnel &
Training Command
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Officially unveiled on Saturday 11th September
2004, the ceremony coincided with the 90th anniversary of the
first British aircraft arriving at St Omer - as well as the 100th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale.
The Air Forces
of France and Britain participated, as well as members of the many
squadrons that were first formed at St Omer. As well as a Spitfire
fly-past, we also had attendance of superb replica Nieuport, SE5A and
Junkers CL1; which gave a memorable display.
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| Young Writers Competition
To celebrate the inauguration of the British Air Services Memorial, Cross & Cockade
International announced an
annual writing competition for young authors under the age of 25 years.
The winner of the Competition receives the “Jim Walsh Prize” of £250
plus a year’s free membership of the Society. A prize of £100 is awarded to the runner up.
The 2007 competition was won by Edward Soye - who recently gave
a fascinating talk at the London Meeting. His winning article, on the
fate of captured German aircraft in post-war Canada, will be appearing
in the journal soon.
It's time to get working on your 2008 entry! Closing date
is 31st December 2008.
Want to know more?
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