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Fifth Course, Central Flying School, Upavon, January-April 1914
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Fifth Course, Central Flying School, Upavon, January-April 1914
Group photograph of the students and instructors of the CFS at Upavon
The Royal Air Force Museum is Britain's only national museum dedicated wholly to aviation
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Bryan Charles B Charlton Cull Dobson Dowding Fairfax Gill Hooper John T Maclean Mansfield Robert W Spence Ware Watkins William F William H
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This evocative group photograph captures the Fifth Course students and instructors of the Central Flying School (CFS) at Upavon, gathered together between January and April 1914. The image is a testament to the early days of military aviation, with the men dressed in their uniforms and holding their flying helmets and goggles. Among the individuals depicted are Harold E. Watkins, Hugh Barnes Martindale, Edward T. Newton-Clare, William W. Allison Burn, Denys C. Ware, Robert W. Gill, Charles F. Beevor, Bryan, Frank G. Saunders, Alexander F. Hooper, Robert J. Ferguson Barton, William H. Mansfield, William F. MacNeice Foster, Hugh F. Worthington-Wilmer, Augustus C. Marsh, Amyas Eden Biffy Borton, Eugene L. Gerrard, Henry L. Brock, Wilfrid R. Freeman, Christopher Draper, Charles B. Spence, Hugh C. Dowding, Robert A. Boger, William F. Dobie, Ash, J. T. Cull, Charles E. Robinson, William R. W. Read, H. Montague Trenchard, Andrew G. Board, Ernest G. R. Lithgow, Frederick A. Wanklyn, Archibald C. Maclean, Shepherd, Fairfax, John Tremayne Babington, Charlton, and Dobson. Frank Howard Kirby is missing from this photograph. The Central Flying School at Upavon was a significant training ground for the Royal Flying Corps and later the Royal Air Force, producing many pioneering aviators who went on to serve their country during World War I. This photograph offers a unique glimpse into the history of military aviation and the men who shaped it.
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