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With The Flying Squadron: Being The War Letters Of The Late Harold Rosher To His Family

History

Rosher, Harold

Military

Kessinger Publishing

A war in the skies above the wavesAs early as 1908 the Royal Navy understood the potential for the use of aircraft in naval warfare. By 1914 the Royal Naval Air Service consisted of 93 aircraft, 6 airships, 2 balloons and 727 personnel. By 1918 when the RNAS was combined with the RAF it had nearly 3,000 aircraft and more than 55,000 personnel. Aircraft working in concert with the Royal Navy and against enemy shipping and coastal installations had come to stay. This interesting book looks at the RNAS from a much more personal perspective-that of one young navy pilot, Harold Rosher. The book tells the story of Rosher's war, based around Dover and engaged in patrolling over and across the English Channel and attacking enemy held coastal defences such as Zeebrugge, principally through letters to his family and provides vital insights into the First World War in the air as experienced by an early naval pilot. Available in softcover and hardcover with dust jacket

With the Flying Squadron: Letters of a Pilot of the Royal Naval Air Service During the First World War

Leonaur Ltd

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In the Royal Naval Air Service: Being the War Letters of the Late Harold Rosher to His Family

Greenhill/Aeolus

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In the Royal naval air service;

Nabu Press

Harold Rosher flew with the RNAS from August 1914 until his death in February, 1916.  He was primarily based in the United Kingdom or in France supporting the British Expeditionary Force along the Belgian coast with # 1 Wing, Royal Naval Air Service.  He flew a wide variety of aircraft incl the Bristol fighter and the BE2c.  On the day of the declaration of war, Rosher applied for a commission in the Royal Naval Air Service.  The letters which form this book were written between August 1914 and February 1916.  They are spontaneous and utterly unstudied documents, and they have been printed almost exactly as Rosher wrote them.  Many of them are quite ordinary; most are spiced with slang; the long ones describing his share in the great historic raids are thrillingly dramatic.  They provide a detailed picture of daily war life in the Royal Navy Air Service, including pilot training.  Especially moving is his description of his feelings while bombing Antwerp under terrific fire.  Three days after the date of the last letter, at the age of twenty two, Rosher was killed at Dover when the aircraft he was testing went out of control and crashed.  This is a valuable account of the early RNAS activities in the war, and information is provided about the raids conducted by RNAS personnel and aircraft types.

With the Flying Squadron: In the Royal Naval Air Service

Fredonia Books