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A Rfc Other Ranks Tunic & Note Book Of Flying Officer G.a. Learn; No. 210 Squadron Kia 1918
A Rfc Other Ranks Tunic & Note Book Of Flying Officer G.a. Learn; No. 210 Squadron Kia 1918
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The Royal Flying Corps Other Ranks Maternity Tunic and Note Book, Attributed to Flying Officer Lieutenant Gerald Alfred Learn, No. 210 Squadron, KIA on June 24, 1918: Royal Flying Corps Other Ranks Maternity Tunic (fabricated from a coarse brown wool, the shoulders adorned with epaulette straps, each of which is sewn in place at the shoulder end and held in place via a hook and eye at the neck end, shoulder flashes on both shoulders, each with white embroidered lettering inscribed "ROYAL FLYING CORPS" on a black wool base, the collar with a triple hook and eye closure, ensuring a snug fit at the neck line. The front has two large, deep light brown cotton-lined pockets below at the waist, one on either side, each designed with a button down fold over flap with a brown plastic button, a row of three brown plastic buttons rising in an arc from the right pocket at the waist line to the upper right breast, the fourth top button having been lost to time, facing an equal number of reinforced button holes on the flap on the left side, discreetly hidden by the overlaying panel, the top button position on the right side surmounted by a hook and eye closure, an additional reinforced button hole between the button and the opening on the right side, which connects to a brown plastic button that appears on the interior on the left side just in from the opening. The rear of the tunic is single-vented. The inside is lined across the shoulders from sleeve to sleeve and on either side of the opening in panels of light brown wool, the undersides of both opening panels lined in a white cotton mesh, with the sleeves lined in sage green cotton. The cotton pocket on the right side is stamped in black ink with the maker mark "THE MILLER MFG. CO. LTD. TORONTO, ONT. / UNIFORM SPECIALISTS". A white fabric manufacturer's label is glued in place on the right side just inside the opening beside the right pocket, the label printed in black ink and inscribed "ROYAL FLYING CORPS / HEIGHT 5 Ft. 11 & 6 Ft. / BREAST 39 / Miller Manufacturing Co. Limited / Toronto - 1917". It has a brown cotton strap in the collar for hanging the tunic on a hook. It measures 400 mm across the shoulders x 715 mm in length, exhibiting scattered mothing, with multiple holes, nips and wear in the fabrics throughout from very active use, the fabric label exhibiting tearing and wear, the stitching on the seams remaining intact); and Royal Flying Corps Note Book (stiff brown cloth cover and designed with a magnetic metal two ring binder, front cover inscribed in gold-coloured ink "THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS LOOSE-LEAF NOTE BOOK", with the Royal Flying Corps insignia and the Latin inscription "PER ARDUA AD ASTRA" (Toward the Stars), the back flyleaf printed in black ink and entitled "ARMY, NAVY & AIR-SERVICE, LOOSE-LEAF NOTE-BOOK SUPPLIES" and maker marked "The Globe-Wernicke Co. Ltd.", inscribed with the owner's name in handwritten blue ink in three locations (on both inside covers and on the front flyleaf) "Gerald A Learn / 2nd Lieut / Royal Flying Corps / Military School of Aeronautics / Christ Church / Oxford", the front flyleaf dated "Jan 13/17 to", containing fifteen ruled two-sided pages, on an off-white paper stock, the pages loose versus the binding and handwritten in pencil, along with various diagrams. Topics covered in the notes include: theory of flight (draft, lift draft ratio, neutral lift line, lateral stability), general flying (dual control, first solo, the formula for switching off), taking off, landing, flags, wind signal, cross country, safety plug, transmitting key, earth connection of transmitter, test for radiation, wireless patrol, Lewis Gun (operating, firing guns, care and cleaning, care of magazines, testing ammunition, spare tools accompanying the gun), engaging hostile batteries, identifying codes, and many more. The note book measures 150 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm, exhibiting light soiling on the cover and on the flyleaves, the pencil inscribed text on the pages unaffected). Very fine.
Footnote: Gerald Alfred Learn was born on August 23, 1895, the son of George A. Learn and Wilhelmina R. Learn of Toronto, Ontario. He was educated at Ross Avenue and Wellesley Street schools in Toronto, later attending Upper Canada College for three years, from September 1912 to December 1915, where he played on the football (rugby) teams. After leaving college, he was employed by the R.G. Long Company Limited and worked as a civic employee with the Works Department at City Hall, before going overseas in December 1916. Learn was to be a 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) effective January 10, 1917, the announcement appearing in the London Gazette 29924 of Tuesday, January 30, 1917, page 1059. He attended the Military School of Aeronautics, Christ Church, Oxford beginning on January 13, 1917 (where this note book originated from), later seeing service in France with No. 5 Reserve Squadron and No. 28 Reserve Squadron, before attending No. 2 (Auxiliary) School of Aerial Gunnery at Turnberry from May 25 to June 8, 1917. After attending school at Turnberry, he returned to No. 28 Reserve Squadron. Learn returned to England on March 31, 1917, where he was employed as an Instructor at the Central Flying School, Salisbury Plain ("B" Squadron). During his flying career, he trained on and flew various aircraft, including Avro aircraft, Sopwith two-seaters, Newport two-seaters, Sopwith Scouts, de Havilland DH5s and Sopwith Camels. Learn was a 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) with the Special Reserve and was named a Flying Officer on August 6, 1917, the announcement appearing in the Fifth Supplement to the London Gazette 30253 of Friday, August 24, 1917, on Saturday, August 25, 1917, page 8859. He was confirmed in the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, the announcement appearing in the Supplement to the London Gazette 30274 of Friday, September 7, 1917, on Friday, September 7, 1917, page 9324. He was posted as an Associate Instructor, to No. 1 School of Special Flying at Gosport, from October 2 to November 5, 1917. Learn was posted to No. 1 School of Aerial Fighting at Ayr on March 30, 1918, returned to France in April and was promoted to Acting Flying Lieutenant in May 1918, effective to April 1, 1918, the latter date that of the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service forming the Royal Air Force. He was posted to No. 210 Squadron on May 11, 1918, where he was a pilot flying a Sopwith Camel, the squadron having been formed from No. 10 Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), when the Royal Air Force was established on April 1st. Eleven days later, on May 22nd, he was piloting a Sopwith Camel (B6351), taken on for an offensive patrol, when he "swung round and ran into sandbags in a crosswind". In a letter dated Monday, June 10, 1918, Learn wrote of his exciting experiences with enemy flyers: "Was out on a stunt this morning. Our flight was acting as escort. We had just finished out job when we were attacked by a formation of half a dozen Huns. I looked over my left shoulder and saw a Hun triplane diving on my tail and saw the tracer bullets from his machine gun coming for me, so I did a sharp turn to the right, but alas for poor me, there was another on my left, and I ran into his fire, so perforce I had to go straight, as there was one on either side firing rounds of perfectly good ammunition. So, as our busses have the rather good reputation of being able to outdive a Hun triplane, I pushed the nose of my bus down vertical with full engine on, the engine giving four or five hundred more revolutions than it should ever be allowed to do. However, I gained such speed that the Huns had to drop out or else have their busses fall to pieces. However, I was still in the soup, as I was only about two thousand feet high over the Hun side, and several inches from our lines. Also the beastly pressure, for the petrol tank broke on the dive, so that I had to switch on to the gravity tank. While I was going for the nearest point of our lines I was subjected to a beastly machine gun fire from the ground, but I was going so fast that they didn't have an earthly chance of hitting me, still it was rather exciting while it lasted. When I landed at the drone I found that the bus had to go into a dry dock, as it had been badly strained in the dive, and all the wires were slack. The centre section had 19 bullet holes through it, still it is some life." Flight Lieutenant Gerald Alfred Learn, No. 210 Squadron, Royal Air Force was piloting a one-seater Sopwith Camel (D3367) on a special mission, on June 26, 1918, when he encountered three enemy aircraft northeast of Zillebeke, near Ypres. His "wings seen to fold", forcing him to crash, his Commanding Officer stating that there was "little doubt that he was killed instantly", that he was "fighting bravely against overwhelming odds when last seen" and was "a splendid example to his colleagues". Learn died at the age of 22, his death later being confirmed by his father, as evidenced in an article in the Toronto Evening Telegram of Friday, July 26, 1918. He is commemorated on page 589 of the First World War Book of Remembrance and is remembered with honour on the Arras Flying Service Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. The Arras Flying Services Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras, near the Citadel, approximately two kilometres due west of the railway station. It commemorates more than 1,000 airmen of the Royal Naval Air Service, the Royal Flying Corps, and the Royal Air Force, either by attachment from other arms of the forces of the Commonwealth or by original enlistment, who were killed on the whole Western Front and who have no known grave. The flight of doves on the globe at the top of the memorial, follows the exact path of the sun on Armistice day: November 11, 1918. This memorial was dedicated in September 2004 and is located at the Aerodrome at St. Omer, which was the home of Headquarters Royal FlyingCorps for most of the war.
The Royal Flying Corps Other Ranks Maternity Tunic and Note Book, Attributed to Flying Officer Lieutenant Gerald Alfred Learn, No. 210 Squadron, KIA on June 24, 1918: Royal Flying Corps Other Ranks Maternity Tunic (fabricated from a coarse brown wool, the shoulders adorned with epaulette straps, each of which is sewn in place at the shoulder end and held in place via a hook and eye at the neck end, shoulder flashes on both shoulders, each with white embroidered lettering inscribed "ROYAL FLYING CORPS" on a black wool base, the collar with a triple hook and eye closure, ensuring a snug fit at the neck line. The front has two large, deep light brown cotton-lined pockets below at the waist, one on either side, each designed with a button down fold over flap with a brown plastic button, a row of three brown plastic buttons rising in an arc from the right pocket at the waist line to the upper right breast, the fourth top button having been lost to time, facing an equal number of reinforced button holes on the flap on the left side, discreetly hidden by the overlaying panel, the top button position on the right side surmounted by a hook and eye closure, an additional reinforced button hole between the button and the opening on the right side, which connects to a brown plastic button that appears on the interior on the left side just in from the opening. The rear of the tunic is single-vented. The inside is lined across the shoulders from sleeve to sleeve and on either side of the opening in panels of light brown wool, the undersides of both opening panels lined in a white cotton mesh, with the sleeves lined in sage green cotton. The cotton pocket on the right side is stamped in black ink with the maker mark "THE MILLER MFG. CO. LTD. TORONTO, ONT. / UNIFORM SPECIALISTS". A white fabric manufacturer's label is glued in place on the right side just inside the opening beside the right pocket, the label printed in black ink and inscribed "ROYAL FLYING CORPS / HEIGHT 5 Ft. 11 & 6 Ft. / BREAST 39 / Miller Manufacturing Co. Limited / Toronto - 1917". It has a brown cotton strap in the collar for hanging the tunic on a hook. It measures 400 mm across the shoulders x 715 mm in length, exhibiting scattered mothing, with multiple holes, nips and wear in the fabrics throughout from very active use, the fabric label exhibiting tearing and wear, the stitching on the seams remaining intact); and Royal Flying Corps Note Book (stiff brown cloth cover and designed with a magnetic metal two ring binder, front cover inscribed in gold-coloured ink "THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS LOOSE-LEAF NOTE BOOK", with the Royal Flying Corps insignia and the Latin inscription "PER ARDUA AD ASTRA" (Toward the Stars), the back flyleaf printed in black ink and entitled "ARMY, NAVY & AIR-SERVICE, LOOSE-LEAF NOTE-BOOK SUPPLIES" and maker marked "The Globe-Wernicke Co. Ltd.", inscribed with the owner's name in handwritten blue ink in three locations (on both inside covers and on the front flyleaf) "Gerald A Learn / 2nd Lieut / Royal Flying Corps / Military School of Aeronautics / Christ Church / Oxford", the front flyleaf dated "Jan 13/17 to", containing fifteen ruled two-sided pages, on an off-white paper stock, the pages loose versus the binding and handwritten in pencil, along with various diagrams. Topics covered in the notes include: theory of flight (draft, lift draft ratio, neutral lift line, lateral stability), general flying (dual control, first solo, the formula for switching off), taking off, landing, flags, wind signal, cross country, safety plug, transmitting key, earth connection of transmitter, test for radiation, wireless patrol, Lewis Gun (operating, firing guns, care and cleaning, care of magazines, testing ammunition, spare tools accompanying the gun), engaging hostile batteries, identifying codes, and many more. The note book measures 150 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm, exhibiting light soiling on the cover and on the flyleaves, the pencil inscribed text on the pages unaffected). Very fine.
Footnote: Gerald Alfred Learn was born on August 23, 1895, the son of George A. Learn and Wilhelmina R. Learn of Toronto, Ontario. He was educated at Ross Avenue and Wellesley Street schools in Toronto, later attending Upper Canada College for three years, from September 1912 to December 1915, where he played on the football (rugby) teams. After leaving college, he was employed by the R.G. Long Company Limited and worked as a civic employee with the Works Department at City Hall, before going overseas in December 1916. Learn was to be a 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) effective January 10, 1917, the announcement appearing in the London Gazette 29924 of Tuesday, January 30, 1917, page 1059. He attended the Military School of Aeronautics, Christ Church, Oxford beginning on January 13, 1917 (where this note book originated from), later seeing service in France with No. 5 Reserve Squadron and No. 28 Reserve Squadron, before attending No. 2 (Auxiliary) School of Aerial Gunnery at Turnberry from May 25 to June 8, 1917. After attending school at Turnberry, he returned to No. 28 Reserve Squadron. Learn returned to England on March 31, 1917, where he was employed as an Instructor at the Central Flying School, Salisbury Plain ("B" Squadron). During his flying career, he trained on and flew various aircraft, including Avro aircraft, Sopwith two-seaters, Newport two-seaters, Sopwith Scouts, de Havilland DH5s and Sopwith Camels. Learn was a 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) with the Special Reserve and was named a Flying Officer on August 6, 1917, the announcement appearing in the Fifth Supplement to the London Gazette 30253 of Friday, August 24, 1917, on Saturday, August 25, 1917, page 8859. He was confirmed in the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, the announcement appearing in the Supplement to the London Gazette 30274 of Friday, September 7, 1917, on Friday, September 7, 1917, page 9324. He was posted as an Associate Instructor, to No. 1 School of Special Flying at Gosport, from October 2 to November 5, 1917. Learn was posted to No. 1 School of Aerial Fighting at Ayr on March 30, 1918, returned to France in April and was promoted to Acting Flying Lieutenant in May 1918, effective to April 1, 1918, the latter date that of the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service forming the Royal Air Force. He was posted to No. 210 Squadron on May 11, 1918, where he was a pilot flying a Sopwith Camel, the squadron having been formed from No. 10 Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), when the Royal Air Force was established on April 1st. Eleven days later, on May 22nd, he was piloting a Sopwith Camel (B6351), taken on for an offensive patrol, when he "swung round and ran into sandbags in a crosswind". In a letter dated Monday, June 10, 1918, Learn wrote of his exciting experiences with enemy flyers: "Was out on a stunt this morning. Our flight was acting as escort. We had just finished out job when we were attacked by a formation of half a dozen Huns. I looked over my left shoulder and saw a Hun triplane diving on my tail and saw the tracer bullets from his machine gun coming for me, so I did a sharp turn to the right, but alas for poor me, there was another on my left, and I ran into his fire, so perforce I had to go straight, as there was one on either side firing rounds of perfectly good ammunition. So, as our busses have the rather good reputation of being able to outdive a Hun triplane, I pushed the nose of my bus down vertical with full engine on, the engine giving four or five hundred more revolutions than it should ever be allowed to do. However, I gained such speed that the Huns had to drop out or else have their busses fall to pieces. However, I was still in the soup, as I was only about two thousand feet high over the Hun side, and several inches from our lines. Also the beastly pressure, for the petrol tank broke on the dive, so that I had to switch on to the gravity tank. While I was going for the nearest point of our lines I was subjected to a beastly machine gun fire from the ground, but I was going so fast that they didn't have an earthly chance of hitting me, still it was rather exciting while it lasted. When I landed at the drone I found that the bus had to go into a dry dock, as it had been badly strained in the dive, and all the wires were slack. The centre section had 19 bullet holes through it, still it is some life." Flight Lieutenant Gerald Alfred Learn, No. 210 Squadron, Royal Air Force was piloting a one-seater Sopwith Camel (D3367) on a special mission, on June 26, 1918, when he encountered three enemy aircraft northeast of Zillebeke, near Ypres. His "wings seen to fold", forcing him to crash, his Commanding Officer stating that there was "little doubt that he was killed instantly", that he was "fighting bravely against overwhelming odds when last seen" and was "a splendid example to his colleagues". Learn died at the age of 22, his death later being confirmed by his father, as evidenced in an article in the Toronto Evening Telegram of Friday, July 26, 1918. He is commemorated on page 589 of the First World War Book of Remembrance and is remembered with honour on the Arras Flying Service Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. The Arras Flying Services Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras, near the Citadel, approximately two kilometres due west of the railway station. It commemorates more than 1,000 airmen of the Royal Naval Air Service, the Royal Flying Corps, and the Royal Air Force, either by attachment from other arms of the forces of the Commonwealth or by original enlistment, who were killed on the whole Western Front and who have no known grave. The flight of doves on the globe at the top of the memorial, follows the exact path of the sun on Armistice day: November 11, 1918. This memorial was dedicated in September 2004 and is located at the Aerodrome at St. Omer, which was the home of Headquarters Royal FlyingCorps for most of the war.
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