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I'm a volunteer with Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre. It would be good to know more about this photo or on any other photos you may have on Montrose Air Station.

Michael Hello Michael - this postcard was part of a collection owned by George Munk - there's some more information in the album description at www.flickr.com/photos/deserontoarchives/albums/7215762751..., but as far as we know, this is the only photo we have from Montrose.

Deseronto Archives Thanks for replying, it is really appreciated. Through an bizarre coincidence an idetical postcard is now for sale on ebay. The museum will try and buy it.

No medal ribbons so probably all beginners? Fine looking bunch and all sporting moustaches I see!!!!

Nice observation. Considering that this image is part of a larger collection of training slides, it would be quite reasonable to assume that these would be rookie pilots.

Apparently they are officers from No.2 squadron based in Montrose, Scotland in front of a BE-2 biplane shortly before they flew to Amiens on 13th August 1914. (Daily Record 19/04/14).

That's a late production BE2b aircraft, or an early BE2c.

Strange to think these gentlemen were likely in their 20s or 30s. Something about B&W, or the clothing & hairstyle always makes them seem an indeterminate "old" no matter how I go along aging myself; they always seem older than me!

Wreckage of Royal Flying Corps (RFC) Sopwith Camel, Serial No. B5201, belonging to 89 Squadron, operating from the airfield at Harling Road. Fatal crash on March 19, 1918, caused by an engine failure and resulting stall. 2nd Lt. Luigi Leopoldo Guasche Costa (RFC) was killed in the accident. See: theyserved.wikia.com/wiki/Luigi_Costa Second Lieutenant Luigi Leopoldo Gauche Costa was an English officer of the Royal Flying Corps who died during the First World War. He was born on 4 June 1899, in Kensington, the son of Cavaliere Girolamo Luigi and Marie Antoinette Costa (née Lesieur), of Italy and France, respectively. Educated at Dulwich, where he was captain of the cricket team, Costa enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps in March 1917. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 11 October 1917. Costa qualified as a pilot on 22 January 1918, and served as an instructor with the 89th Training Squadron. He died on 19 March 1918 when his aircraft suffered engine failure near Thetford, Norfolk. He is interned at Golders Green Crematorium. See also: www.kingstonaviation.org/100-years-ago/1918.html www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1918.htm www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk/archive/7000268362-costa-l...