Includes:
1. Flying Googles (wreckage-recovered: both eyepieces with a teardrop-shaped aluminum frame, each of the lenses in clear plastic, the reverse side of each frame padded in a thick supple brown leather, to provide good cushioning to the wearer's face, most of the head strap remaining attached to the left lens, the strap forming the hinge having experienced separation, the right aluminum frame exhibiting impact damage, each eyepiece measuring 105 mm (w) x 65 mm (h));
2. Scrapbook (featuring his British War Medal (in silver, impressed "2, LIEUT. G.N. WARWICK" on the edge, measuring 36 mm in diameter, original ribbon) taped in place on the endpaper of the inside front cover, the scrapbook containing thirty pages and loaded with period newspaper and magazine articles pasted in place, the articles featuring multiple accounts of the accident along with numerous photographs of the man, the wreckage of the aircraft and the eventual removal of his body from the site, with the various publications that they were clipped from and their dates identified in handwritten black ink beside the articles. The scrapbook cover has reinforcing black bookbinding tape on the spine, the thirty pages on a thick card stock with articles pasted in place on both sides, measuring 245 mm (w) x 302 mm (h) x 40 mm (d), the cover having experienced soiling, the newsprint of the articles having yellowed over time);
3. Royal Aero Club King's Cup 1928 Time Card (wreckage-recovered: filled out in black ink as: "Racing No. 24 / Pilot G.N. Warwick / Passengers None", listing the six locations he started and/or left from and the times, before crashing, measuring 198 mm (w) x 323 mm (h));
4. Rough Sketch Map of Cramlington Aerodrome (wreckage-recovered: in black ink, on a white paper stock, measuring 228 mm (w) x 210 mm (h), lightly soiled);
5. Four black and white Photographs of Warwick (three with a gloss finish, the other with a matte finish and faded to a sepia-toned look, one is stamped "Copyright by Photopress" on the reverse, the others unmarked, ranging in size from 180 mm (w) x 120 mm (h) to 188 mm (w) x 234 mm (h)). Very fine.
Footnote: Guy Nevile Warwick was born on March 20, 1898. In the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, he was engaged in Egypt during the First World War with the Royal Flying Corps. He is documented as having been a 2nd Lieutenant with the Gurkha Rifles and a Lieutenant in the Indian Army, attached to the Royal Flying Corps. The Royal Flying Corps merged with the Royal Naval Air Service, to form the Royal Air Force on April 1, 1918. Guy Nevile Warwick was on the Unattached List of the Indian Army, with a view to an appointment to the Indian Army, the announcement appearing in the Fourth Supplement to the London Gazette 30644 of Friday, April 19, 1918, on Tuesday, April 23, 1918, page 4849. He was later transferred to the Reserve Ledger in December 1926. When the London Flying Club was formed in 1925, he was among the first to join and flew his own machine. Warwick was a Barrister from Harpenden, Hertfordshire, had been married for seven years and had three children, but had recently given up practice, in order to devote his whole attention to civil aviation. He purchased the aircraft about one year previous to the King's Cup Air Race of 1928. The ANEC IV Missel Thrush was a 1920s British two-seat light aircraft built by Air Navigation and Engineering Company Limited (ANEC) at Addlestone, Surrey. The ANEC IV biplane was designed by John Bewsher for the 1926 Lympne light aircraft trial for two seaters fitted with engines of less than 170 pounds. It did not make the competition as the undercarriage collapsed in a taxiing accident.
In 1927, the only aircraft built (registered G-EBPI) was sold to a private owner (Warwick), who replaced the original Blackburne Thrush radial engine with an Armstrong Siddeley Genet II engine. Before the King's Cup Air Race, he had experimented with various types of engines. Warwick had considerable experience as an aviator and held a 'B' Class pilot's certificate. The King's Air Cup Race race began at Hendon on July 20, 1928, with Warwick taking off aboard the ANEC IV Missel Thrush G-EBPI at 9:21:54. Subsequent stops along the way included Norwich, Birmingham (Castle Bromwich), Nottingham (Hucknall), Leeds (Sherburn) and Newcastle-on-Tyne (Cramlington). He departed the next leg of the race bound for Glasgow (Renfrew) at 17:20:08, however, Warwick crashed at Broad Law, Megget, Selkirkshire, near the border with Peeblesshire on July 20, 1928, at an altitude of 2,727 feet above sea level and was killed as a result of the crash, at the age of 30. He had been called to the bar six months before the accident. A ground and air search was launched, the accident site discovered on the 22nd, with his wife already in transit after hearing about his plane having been declared missing. The wreckage and Warwick's body were found by a young shepherd named David Brown, who had read about the missing plane in the newspaper. The impact left an impression six inches deep, extending down the hillside for ten yards, the impact causing the wreckage to scatter on the mountainside, the aircraft's engine found 50 yards away and his body lying 200 yards away from the crashed machine. His Flying Goggles, Royal Aero Club King's Cup 1928 Time Card and the Rough Sketch Map of Cramlington Aerodrome were recovered from the wreckage (and are part of this group). It is surmised that he was out of petrol, as he was flying southbound and not northbound for Glasgow, suggesting that he was circling around with the intention of landing. The summit of Broad Law is the highest mountain in Peeblesshire and from the air, would appear to be a very likely landing place. It would only be when very near the ground that he realized that he was on the edge of a veritable precipice. The immediate area is wild and mountainous and is often covered in mist. His body was recovered and carried down the mountain by shepherds and other volunteer searchers. Warwick was the first man to lose his life during a King's Cup Air Race. The registration of G-EBPI was cancelled by the Air Ministry on July 20, 1928 due to "destruction or permanent withdrawal from use of aircraft". In June 2004, Air Crash Investigation and Archaeology (ACIA) reported that "the remains of ANEC Missel Thrush, G-EBPI, have been found on Broad Law, near St. Mary's Loch in the Scottish Borders". ACIA members Jim Corbett, Scott McIntosh and Alan Hudson discovered the fragmented remains after a long search on the southern slopes of the mountain, eventually finding the fragments in a stream below the reported crash location. Reports that the engine remained on the mountain proved unfounded.