The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The D.H.5 aircraft in which Lieutenant MacDonald of the 68th Australian Squadron (No. 2 Australian Flying Corps (AFC)), crashed out of control near Baizieux, on 6 December 1917. When withdrawn from the machine, Lieutenant MacDonald was unconscious, but two hours later was able to report for duty. Note the serial No. A954? "Z". Identified, left to right: Air Mechanic First Class (1/AM) H. S. Raphael; Corporal L. Dunnet; 1/AM H. J. Cullen; unidentified (partially obscured); 1/AM C. H. Peter; 1/AM E. Mayman. This machine was probably flown by Lieutenant R. W. McKenzie and was shot down landing at Fremicourt.
An accident on Savy Aerodrome during the German offensive. A powerful factor in weakening the German thrust across the old Somme battlefield was the continuous bombing by British aircraft. Both Nos 2
Minchinhampton, England. Mechanics at repair workshop inside Headquarters Machine Shops of No. 1 Two Squadron Station, Australian Flying Corps (AFC) at the Australian aerodrome at Minchinhampton. Left
Captain G. C. Wilson MC DCM, near Baizieux, seated in an D.H.5 A9449, '1' aircraft with which he did effective bombing and harassing work during the Cambrai Battle of November 1917, thereby earning fo
Informal portrait of Captain G C Wilson MC DCM, near Baizieux, seated in an D.H.5 A9449, '1' aircraft with which he did effective bombing and harassing work during the Cambrai Battle of November 1917,
Members of the 10th Machine Gun Company, by an old German pillbox, at Uhlan Trench, Messines Ridge. Left to right: Major Harold Ordish DSO; Lieutenant Frank Hales Potter (slightly behind Ordish); Serg
A German Albatros D5A Scout aircraft Serial No. 5390/17 brought down by members of the Australian Flying Corps, near Armentieres on 17 December 1917. Both the airmen concerned, Lieutenant L. Sandy and
