Twelve RE8s of 6 Squadron parked on a French aerodrome during WW1 - photograph taken in 1918

Group photo of 6 Squadron Royal Flying Corps in Abeele, Belgium c1917. My grandfather 1AM Frederick Johnstone is sitting cross-legged bottom left

The following books of Steve Buster Johnson are now cheaper and able to be purchased worldwide: Seven Days in April, Leaning on a Lamp Post, A Man of Many Letters, Over the Western Front and Rising from the Flanders Mud.

Private James William Palmer of the Norfolk Regiment 1922

Cemetery plan for the Basra (Makina) RAF Cemetery, including the names of the seventy-one fallen, their dates of death and what service they were in at the time of their death

From October 1914 until November 1917, 6 Squadron was based in the northern sector of the Western Front, in close proximity to Ypres, but when the Battle of Cambrai was planned by the Allies, the squadron was moved south to the Somme valley. Here are two extracts from my book, Over the Western Front, explaining what happened at the Battle of Cambrai and the consequences this had for 6 Squadron.