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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Goggles, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

The Bristol Fighter had some beef behind it. From Uxbridge I passed out and was posted to the fighter training squadron at Crail, Scotland.

I did about thirty hours flying; half of it solo. By the end I could do quite a few tricks, looping the loop, roll spins and all the rest of it. I had a good instructor, Captain Dean. These instructors were all pilots from France. They got the wind up and had been sent home. Couldn’t take any more of it. He was a real ‘B,’ this Captain Dean. He used to swear and curse at you. He’d been shot down in No Man’s Land and had been rescued. If you did anything silly he’d shout. “What the hell are you doing, you’ll kill your bloody self!” All of this & more in a 25,000 word verbatim memoir from interviews conducted with Jack Wilson MM in his 97th year.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Australian Flying Corps AFC, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Beautiful Vintage Memory, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Lots more on Hudson Fysh here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Fysh. Plus yay for distant relatives of mine (well, my husband's) showing up in the Commons!

I am sure this incident would have been well recorded in the local newspapers at the time?

Talk about getting home for tea!

Or an early Martini - shaken *and* stirred!

Wow!

Great photo, I believe the plane was being used to deliver mail to the infantry barracks which was just across the street.

Waterford Infantry Barracks

I had fun trying to work out what the aircraft were. Those closest the camera are Bristol Fighters; further away are (I think) Airco DH9s and then DH4s