By Elimor Mekevet
In this article, the lives, operational records and personal achievements of three pilots serving in Palestine – Gerhard Felmy, Claude Vauton and Thomas Steele – are linked together through common experiences and underlying themes. The narrative can be seen to reflect the course of air fighting on this front.
Published in Cross & Cockade International Vol 56/1 Spring 2025.
Andrei Alexandrov
History of the flying boats and airships of the Imperial Russian Navy. Photos rarely seen in the West. To read the article please visit our online shop to join GWAS
From 2022, a digital pdf version of the Journal will be available. Members can see a sample pdf version of Vol 51/4 in the Members’ Area, above.
This will be an alternative to the printed Journal, not a replacement. Subscription cost will be less for Members wanting the digital version only, and the content will be fully searchable online
Lots of free material here that can be downloaded.
The winner of the Guild of Aviation Artists 2019 Exhibition in the WW1 category, with a prize sponsored by Cross and Cockade, was Grahame Turner’s highly commended “Photo-Shoot”, showing a BE2e crew obtaining vital reconnaissance information while under fire.
The runner-up was “Naval 8” by James Colthorpe
The latest book to be published by CCI is “Jewish Flyers in the World War”, a reprint and update of a book published in Germany in 1924 to counteract the upsurge in anti-Semitism. Some new entries have been added, and the eventual fates of those who survived WW1 have been added if known (of course some perished in the Holocaust).
Available from the CCI bookshop: Shop > Books > Books published by CCI
The York meetings are not happening at present; they may restart once the Covid pandemic is no longer an issue
