Diary of Ross Smith |
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| Title : | Diary of Ross Smith |
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| Creator : | Smith, Ross Macpherson, Sir, 1892-1922 | ||
| Source : | Smith, Keith Macpherson, Sir, 1890-1955, PRG 18/19 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1916-1918 | ||
| Format : | Diary | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
Diary of Ross' activities in No. 1 Squadron, A.F.C. 24/10/1916 - 15/2/1918. Read a PDF of this diary:Part 1, 24 October 1916 - 30 July 1917Part 2, 2 August 1917 - 15 February 1918or view a typescript transcript.Captain Sir Ross Smith K.B.E., M.C., D.F.C., A.F.C. was born in 1892 to Andrew and Jessie (nee Macpherson) in metropolitan Adelaide. Married in 1888, Andrew and Jessie brought up their sons Ross, Keith and Colin on Mutooroo Station where they gained skills in riding and bushcraft. In 1906 the family moved to Andrew Smith's home in Moffat, Scotland, where the brothers studied at Warriston School for two years. The family returned to Australia in 1908. In 1910 Ross toured Britain and the USA with a party of mounted cadets led by Colonel James Rowell. Ross enlisted in 1914 with the Light Horse and gained his pilot's wings in 1917. He was killed in 1922 in a Viking with Bennett in front of a considerable crowd of onlookers. |
| Period : | 1914-1918 |
| Further reading : | Cutlack, F. M. The Australian Flying Corps : in the western and eastern theatres of war, 1914-1918, Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1938 Price, A. Grenfell. The skies remember : the story of Ross and Keith Smith, Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1969 Schaedel, Charles. Men & machines of the Australian Flying Corps, 1914-19, Dandenong, Vic. : Kookaburra Technical Publications, [1972] |
| Internet links : | Australian Dictionary of Biography See: Smith, Sir Ross Macpherson (1892-1922) Australian Screen: The Australian Flying Corps in France, England and Palestine (1919) [Film from Australian War Memorial showing Machines of No. 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, take off from their desert base at El Mejdel in Palestine, in February 1918. Their flight is filmed from the air by Captain Frank Hurley, flying in the observer's seat, with Captain Ross Smith as the pilot] Australian War Memorial See: Exhibitions: Fifty Australians: Sir Ross Smith Australian War Memorial See: War history: Australian Military History: An overview: The Australian Flying Corps Australian War Memorial See: War history: Units: 1 Squadron AFC |
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