A First War Lens Aerial Photograph & Projection Slides Group

Item #C4845

$210

A First War Lens Aerial Photograph & Projection Slides Group

Great Britain; Includes: Eleven Glass Aerial Photography Slides (illustrating various trenches, roads, buildings, farmland, trees, etc. in and around Lens, France, each is coded with various inscriptions in reverse type on the slide, the slides themselves with file numbers from C.F.S. 1474 to C.F.S. 1984 inclusive taped in place on the front, the glass reinforced with black tape on all four edges, 82 mm x 82 mm each, two of the slides (C.F.S. 1477 & C.F.S. 1484) exhibiting cracking in the glass); an Aerial View of Godega Aerodrome Photograph (black and white, gloss finish, photo marked in reverse type "34. N.X. 525. / W. of GODEGA 2444/2422 / 13500 Ft. 17.4.18 - 9." at the upper left, tagline at the bottom inscribed "Part of GODEGA AERODROME. 17. 4. 18. (April 17, 1918) / One two-seater on ground North of main road. Between twenty ad twenty five scouts on ground South of main road. This is one of the largest aerodromes opposite this front, 42 hangers being visible on this photo.", 112 mm x 169 mm, slight tear on the left side); a Flight Sub Lieutenant Charles Torryburn Brimer, RNAS Photograph (black and white, matte finish, obverse illustrating Flight Sub Lieutenant Charles Torryburn Brimer in his Curtis Model F flying boat while at Hanlan's Point in Toronto, Ontario, before he was killed overseas on December 4, 1916, photo measuring 151 mm x 249 mm and mounted to a gray panelled card, reverse inscribed in black ink "FLT. SUB LIEUTENANT CHARLES TORRYBURN BRIMER / ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE / IN CURTISS "F" BOAT - HANLAN'S POINT / SEPT. 1915", 158 mm x 258 mm); and eight Small Photographs (black and white; five with a matte finish, illustrating groups of airmen, women and children, one with a group in front of a plane, two with a group in front of a truck, two with a group standing in the snow, all five are numerically coded on the reverse; three with a gloss finish, illustrating aircraft, two of which had been crashed, two with a handwritten description in blue ink on the reverse; ranging in size from 50 mm x 76 mm to 54 mm x 90 mm). Near extremely fine.

 
Footnote: Charles Torryburn Brimer was born on December, 6, 1897, the son of Charles Oakly Brimer and Mary Bow Brimer of 323 Markham Street, Toronto, Ontario. He was “An ‘old’ boy of Harbord Collegiate Institute.” in Toronto and took a course in flying at Newport News, Virginia. Flight Sub Lieutenant Brimer served from June 1915 to December 1916 with the Royal Naval Air Service. He died on December, 4, 1916, presumed to have drowned while on English Channel Patrol, at the age of 18, two days shy of his nineteenth birthday. He had written a letter, that was received after he was reported missing to his parents, informing them of his qualification for a commission in the R.N.A.S at the head of his class. Flight Sub Lieutenant Charles Torryburn Brimer, Royal Naval Air Service is remembered with honour on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent, United Kingdom and is commemorated on Page 570 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.