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Sunday 25 August 1918 – Did Not Fly – 42 Sqn B Flight Photos

No flying for Greg today, for unrecorded reasons. So we take a look at some photos of the officers of B Flight, 42 Squadron RAF.

42 Squadron, B Flight Photographs

It would have been sometime around now when the following photographs of some of Greg’s fellow officers were taken. The location is almost certainly in front of the flight’s hut on the aerodrome at Rely.  Greg isn’t in either of them, so he may have been the photographer.

Officers of 42 Squadron RAF, probably B flight
Officers of 42 Squadron RAF, probably B flight, almost certainly taken in front of the flight’s hut at Rely aerodrome, Summer 1918. Click for larger image. Photo credit: Greg’s War Collection
Officers of 42 Squadron RAF, probably B flight
Another group photo of officers of 42 Squadron RAF, probably B flight, almost certainly taken in front of the flight’s hut at Rely aerodrome, Summer 1918. Click for larger image. Photo credit: Greg’s War Collection

In both of the above photos, the person in shorts in the middle of the front row is Captain William (‘Bill’) Ledlie, who was the commanding officer of the flight.  More on him another time.  And sitting on the sandbags at the end of the second row on the right, in both photos, is Lt Edward Ives – thanks to his grandsons Julian and Les for the identification.  More about Lt Ives here:

Saturday 29 June 1918 – CBP Cancelled by Weather

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