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Image: The eyes of the army - Sopwith Camels ready for a patrol over the German lines (1918) - India Office Official Record of the Great War (1921) - BL Photo 21-116

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Description: The eyes of the army - Sopwith Camels ready for a patrol over the German lines. View of aircraft and pilot. 1915. Collection note: The photographs appear in a variety of sizes, shapes and colours including shades of blue, green and brown. They record scenes of military life as experienced by the Indian and British armies in France during the First World War. Added: A stereo card version of this photograph was issued as #68 in Volume I of the set of 600 stereographs of the Great War issued after the war by Girdwood's company Realistic Travels - [1]. A copy in the National Army Museum is given the date 1917 (Accession no. NAM. 2001-02-256-68). The aircraft are in fact Sopwith Snipe, not Sopwith Camels, and only entered service in late 1918. E8015 was allocated to No. 43 Squadron RAF, and flown by E. Mulcair between October and November 1918. The aircraft was written off on 31 May 1922.
Title: The eyes of the army - Sopwith Camels ready for a patrol over the German lines (1918) - India Office Official Record of the Great War (1921) - BL Photo 21-116
Credit: This file has been provided by the British Library from its digital collections. Catalogue entry: IOSM Photo 21/(116)
Author: H. D. Girdwood
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