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No. 73 Squadron Royal Flying Corps
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Want to know more about No. 73 Squadron Royal Flying Corps? There are:10 items tagged No. 73 Squadron Royal Flying Corps available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.
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249387 LAC. Frank Henry Joseph Hirons 73 Squadron Frank Hirons served with 73 Squadron in the RFC and RAF.
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246325 Lt. Alexander McConnell-Wood 73 Squadron My uncle Alexander McConnell-Wood left Durham University to join the army in 1917. He eventually became a pilot and trained on the Sopwith Camel. Sent to 73 Squadron on the Western front, he managed to write off 2 Camels and was sent for further training. On rejoining the Squadron, he was credited with half a kill on a German fighter before he was shot down. He elected to leave his stricken Camel and jumped, without parachute and was caught up in trees.
He spent the remaining 2 months of the war in a Belgian hospital as a Prisoner of War, which probably saved his life.
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