Enstone, Albert James, Captain.

Pilot's logbooks (3 books) covering the period 1916-1918 and a pocket notebook with technical details of different aircraft types. Typescript sheets with details of daily routine, duties of officers, ration scale and allocation of mechanical transport for No 4 Squadron RNAS at Dunkirk, 1917. Printed maps of the Ostend and Zeebrugge areas of Belgium, February 1918. Certificate of commission as a captain in the RAF, dated 1 April 1918. Printed booklet issued by the Air Ministry entitled 'A Few Hints for the Flying Officer'. Printed booklets with Air Force Memoranda Nos 1 and 2 concerning transfer of the RNAS and RFC to the RAF and the new uniform. Officer's temporary identity passes for the Dover special military area issued at Dover Priory train station, 1918. Permit to travel from Dover to Inverness on leave from active service, August 1918. Copy of the printed King's Message to the RAF, 11 November 1918. Letters, telegrams, Christmas card, lists of personnel and other documents relating to his service in the RAF. Album of photographs from the First World War period showing fighter aircraft, airships, airstations, aerial photographs and portraits. Also a small number of loose watercolours and photographs of aircraft and fellow officers, including Arnold Jacques Chadwick (1893-1917) and Ronald McNeill Keirstead (1895-1970). The folio item is an album of aerial reconnaissance photographs taken over the Flanders area including Middelkerke and Westende, 1917-1918.

Object Details

ID: BGY/E/2
Type: Manuscript
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Enstone, Albert James
Date made: 1914 - 191921; 1914-01-01 - 1918-12-31 1914 - 1921
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 1 box, 1 folio
Parts: Biography 'E' (Manuscript)