Two days after 42 Squadron moved to Saultain, Greg went back to Aulnoy Aerodrome to pick up another aircraft. It wasn’t far: a few minutes’ drive in what was then open countryside. Or he could have walked it in under an hour.
Log Book
Date: Dec 13th Machine Type: RE8 RE8: 2517 Observer: Scarterfield Time: 10 min Height: 500 Course/Remarks: Travelling to Saultain
Squadron Record Book
Type and Number: R.E.8.2517 Pilot and Observer: P. Lt Gregory. Duty: Travelling Flight Hour of Start: 1140 Hour of Return: 1150 Remarks: Travelling from AULNOY
The Squadron Record Book makes no reference to an observer, whereas Greg’s log book indicates by ditto marks that Lt Scarterfield accompanied him on this short flight from Aulnoy Aerodrome to Saultain. Can’t say which is right. But either this flight or the travelling flight two days previously on 11 December 1918 was Greg’s last with Lt Ralph Scarterfield. They had first flown together on 30 August 1918 from Rely: