Battle of Messines Aerial Photos - New Discovery
By sheer good fortune, and thanks to David Weekes who offered me some of his photographic collection from WW1, I have become the custodian of an official document produced by 6 Squadron Royal Flying Corps shortly after the Battle of Messines in June 1917. The document (unique as far as I know and only recently come to light after almost 100 years) comprises some 86 aerial photographs of the area around the Messines ridge, taken between December 1916 and the days immediately p
Steve Buster Johnson
Mar 4, 2017
At Last - The Exact Locations of the Four WW1 Airfields around Poperinge
A 1918 map that locates the four allied airfields at Poperinge, belgium
Steve Johnson
Dec 6, 2016
The End of www.forgodenglandethel.com
After more than eight years of service, I closed my old website www.forgodenglandethel.com on the 21st January 2016 so that I could...
Steve Johnson
Jan 26, 2016
6 Squadron Pioneers
In recent weeks I have received several requests asking me to reserach the WW1 activities of airmen who served with 6 Squadron on the...
Steve Johnson
Sep 2, 2014
Streamers Return to 6 Squadron
After an absence of 96 years, the streamers my grandfather brought back from Belgium have returned in style to 6 Squadron Royal Air...
Steve Johnson
Jun 18, 2014
6 Squadron Royal Air Force 100th Birthday Typhoon Markings
Fresh paint job on the canard wings of a 6 Squadron Royal Air Force Typhoon to celebrate 100 years since the squadron was formed.
Steve Johnson
Apr 11, 2014