 | Letter from Home
A young Royal Flying Corps pilot takes a moment to lose himself in the words of a loved one waiting for him back at home. |
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A newly trained Royal Flying Corps pilot and observer arrive at their first posting, a front line BE2e reconnaissance squadron. |
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 | An Inauspicious Start for the Bristol Fighter
On the morning of 5th April 1917, Captain William Robinson, who had been awarded the Victoria Cross for shooting down a Zeppelin airship in 1916, leads a flight of six new 48 Squadron Bristol F2As on their first combat patrol, when they are intercepted by five Albatros D.IIIs from Jasta 11, led by Manfred von Richthofen.SOLD |
|  | Letord Artillery Spotting
A Letord of the French C 11 Observation Squadron directs artillery fire onto the rear of the German lines east of Rheims on 11th April 1917, prior to the ground offensive.SOLD |
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 | 'Oops!'
A pilot walks away from his Sopwith Camel having tipped it onto its nose on landing, fortunate that it is only his pride that is hurt. |
|  | Exposed
Manfred von Richthofen attacks the FE2b that would become his first victim. |
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 | A Long Way from Home
A column of Indian Cavalry advance through the town of Albert, which was central to the Allied activities on the Somme in 1916. SOLD |
|  | Towards High Wood
A British cavalryman crosses the old front line during the advance to High Wood on July 14th 1916. SOLD |
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 | Victor and Vanquished
Having located the German Albatros aircraft he had forced down behind the British lines, an RFC pilot approaches the dejected German airman, who sits before his aircraft under guard, resigned to life as a POW. |
|  | Contact
A ground crewman prepares to swing the propeller to start the engine of a 10 Squadron RNAS Sopwith Camel. |
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 | From the Heavens into Hell
The observer of an unarmed BE2c struggles to drag the unconscious pilot from his cockpit, while the Fokker Eindekker that forced them down into the mud of no-mans land flies overhead. |
|  | Somme Contact Patrol
British troops signal their position to a BE2c flying overhead as they struggle to advance across no-mans land on July 1st 1916, the first day of the battle of the Somme. SOLD |
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|  | Anzac Infanrtyman 1914-15
Eight full colour paintings produced for a book about the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, focusing on their role in the Gallipoli campaign. |
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 | Close Call
The pilot and observer of an FE2b walk away from their damaged aircraft, leaving it in the hands of the ground crew to patch up ready for the next sortie. SOLD |
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 | Aviation Original Paintings
Most of Graham Turner's aviation paintings are of First World War subjects so are detailed here, but to see his paintings from other periods of aviation history, CLICK HERE |
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Motorsport Original Paintings
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