Photos and illustrations for chapter 5

1. Hangars, London Colney.

2. “Chas. E. Brown, Jr, roommate.” Charles Edward “Ted” Brown. London Colney, January 13, 1918.

3. “Avro London Colney Jan 1918.” Parr’s flying log indicates he never flew this particular plane (B4238).

4. “Parr & Avro. London Colney Jan 1918”

5a. “Lt. McEntegart, Avro. Stunt instructor.” London Colney, January 7, 1918.

5b. Lt. Bernard McEntegart.

6a. “Piggot & Paskill in Avro London Colney—Instructor and pupil.” Lt. Piggot (or Pigott) is unidentified. The pupil is Reuben Lee Paskill. January 7, 1918.

6b. Lt. Piggot.

7. Presumably “one of our motor lurries.” [Update 2019: This photo turns out to have been taken at Ayr. I recently received a print of it with Parr’s note on the back: “The Bus which took us to the aerodrome. Ayr 2 Ap 18”.]

8a. “R.F.C. Huns & Lt. Raynor, Avro.” London Colney, January 3, 1918. In a letter to his sister Grider remarks that “you kind of get fed up with being a ‘Hun,’ as they call the pupils” (Marse John Goes to War, p. 86).

8b. “R.F.C. Huns & Lt. Raynor, Avro.” Detail. Charles Brown is on the far right, with Reuben Paskill next to him. I presume that Lt. Raynor is third from left.

9. “S.E.5 crashed, Paskill.” January 7, 1918, London Colney. Paskill, emerging from cockpit, had presumably crawled in to have a look around; he would not have been flying this type of plane at this point in his training.

10. “B.E.2.C., Brown & Paskill.” London Colney, January 13, 1918.

11. “Fry, Curtis, Brown, & Anderson.” London Colney, January 3, 1918.

12. “Hollander & Avro.” Edward Frank Hollander, a member of the second Oxford detachment. London Colney, January 3, 1918.

13a. “Barry before Avro.” London Colney, January 3, 1918.

13b. Rutledge Bermingham Barry, a member of the first Oxford detachment.

14. “Parr, sitting on stump, A cap.” London Colney, January 13, 1918.

15. “Dud Mudge’s crash—the way one American landed on his 1st solo. Flash light.”

16. “Rumptie crashed. The way an Englishman did it.” Northolt, December 1917.

17a. Graduating nursing class of 1913 at Union Protestant Infirmary in Baltimore. Parr’s sister Mary always thought she looked best in profile.

17b. Parr’s sister, Mary Bowen Hooper, at her 1913 graduation from nursing school.

18. Page from Parr’s letter of January 26, 1918, illustrating an Immelman.

19. The Whiting family at Mr. and Mrs. Whiting’s silver wedding lunch at Long Acre, May 13, 1905. Seated, left to right: Katherine, Madeleine, William Henry, Marian, unidentified older woman with cap, unidentified young woman, Muriel, Gerald. Maurice is standing behind his father; the older gentleman standing is unidentified. Ralph stands between Muriel and Gerald. Photo courtesy of Joe Fearon, husband of Ralph’s daughter Mary.

20. Parr’s Pilot’s Flying Log Book, February 14–21, 1918.