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- 16/01/2018 21:31:00 in reply to: No.9 Kite Balloon Section, R.F.C. March to early June 1916 #2023081777656374
Peter Chapman
ParticipantThanks for this Joe. It’s what I suspected would be the case given other things and opinions I’ve seen of MacNeece. He seems to have been one of those people tolerated at best and loathed otherwise, at least by the men who served under him, although that’s just conjecture on my part based on old opinions written at the time. Shaw certainly had little or no time for him and was RTU’d for finally telling MacNeece exactly what he thought of him, in plain Anglo Saxon evidently.
18/10/2017 19:18:15 in reply to: No.9 Kite Balloon Section, R.F.C. March to early June 1916 #2023081777658245Peter Chapman
ParticipantThank you so much Andrew…you are a gentleman!|LEFT|br |FRONTS||RIGHT|
18/10/2017 19:18:00 in reply to: No.9 Kite Balloon Section, R.F.C. March to early June 1916 #2023081777656368Peter Chapman
ParticipantThank you so much Andrew…you are a gentleman!
06/09/2017 12:13:08 in reply to: No.9 Kite Balloon Section, R.F.C. March to early June 1916 #2023081777658243Peter Chapman
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06/09/2017 12:13:00 in reply to: No.9 Kite Balloon Section, R.F.C. March to early June 1916 #2023081777656364Peter Chapman
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05/09/2017 07:47:11 in reply to: No.9 Kite Balloon Section, R.F.C. March to early June 1916 #2023081777658252Peter Chapman
ParticipantIt would just be AIR 1|FRONTS|1529|FRONTS|204|FRONTS|72|FRONTS|1 thro |FRONTS|3 probably, as Shaw was RTU|Q|ed in late May 1916, and file |FRONTS|4 is for June 1916. The other refs you sent are RNAS and he certainly wasn|Q|t with them. Before becoming a KB observer and KB Section Commander, Shaw was a Captain in the West Riding Territorials (from pre|MINUS|war) and thus Army. Also, his service pre|MINUS|dates the formation of KB Wings, and he was RTU|Q|ed before any of these were formed.|LEFT|br |FRONTS||RIGHT||LEFT|br |FRONTS||RIGHT|Another oddity I|Q|ve discovered about Shaw is that his AIR 76 file is listed under the name |LEFT|b|RIGHT|Francis Harold|LEFT||FRONTS|b|RIGHT| Shaw and the personal details are incorrect, but the record of transfers etc. are spot on! It seems that some clerk at the time made a monumental howler and added his details to someone else|Q|s record, or duplicated the Shaws as there was an Airman by the name in the RFC as well. My man|Q|s real name was |LEFT|b|RIGHT|Frank Hubert|LEFT||FRONTS|b|RIGHT| Shaw, the well|MINUS|known (at the time) author of sailing and maritime books.
05/09/2017 07:47:00 in reply to: No.9 Kite Balloon Section, R.F.C. March to early June 1916 #2023081777656360Peter Chapman
ParticipantIt would just be AIR 1/1529/204/72/1 thro /3 probably, as Shaw was RTU’ed in late May 1916, and file /4 is for June 1916. The other refs you sent are RNAS and he certainly wasn’t with them. Before becoming a KB observer and KB Section Commander, Shaw was a Captain in the West Riding Territorials (from pre-war) and thus Army. Also, his service pre-dates the formation of KB Wings, and he was RTU’ed before any of these were formed.
Another oddity I’ve discovered about Shaw is that his AIR 76 file is listed under the name Francis Harold Shaw and the personal details are incorrect, but the record of transfers etc. are spot on! It seems that some clerk at the time made a monumental howler and added his details to someone else’s record, or duplicated the Shaws as there was an Airman by the name in the RFC as well. My man’s real name was Frank Hubert Shaw, the well-known (at the time) author of sailing and maritime books.
05/09/2017 06:26:58 in reply to: No.9 Kite Balloon Section, R.F.C. March to early June 1916 #2023081777658250Peter Chapman
ParticipantThat|Q|s very kind of you Andrew, thank you. I am in no hurry so the 17th would be fine.|LEFT|br |FRONTS||RIGHT|
05/09/2017 06:26:00 in reply to: No.9 Kite Balloon Section, R.F.C. March to early June 1916 #2023081777656356Peter Chapman
ParticipantThat’s very kind of you Andrew, thank you. I am in no hurry so the 17th would be fine.
31/08/2017 00:56:49 in reply to: No.9 Kite Balloon Section, R.F.C. March to early June 1916 #2023081777658247Peter Chapman
ParticipantThanks for that Errol. I|Q|ll certainly keep him in mind.|LEFT|br |FRONTS||RIGHT|
31/08/2017 00:56:00 in reply to: No.9 Kite Balloon Section, R.F.C. March to early June 1916 #2023081777656352Peter Chapman
ParticipantThanks for that Errol. I’ll certainly keep him in mind.
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