Photograph showing three men in uniform standing in front of a Curtiss JN-4 aircraft painted with 'Victory Bond' insignia. The aircraft is in front of a hangar at Camp Rathbun, one of the Royal Flying Corps' pilot training camps near Deseronto, Ontario.
Aerial photograph of Camp Rathbun, one of the Royal Flying Corps' pilot training camps near Deseronto, Ontario. The photograph was taken from the East side of Boundary Road, looking towards the northwest.
Aerial photograph of Napanee, Ontario, looking towards the southwest.
Aerial photograph of Camp Mohawk, one of the Royal Flying Corps' pilot training camps near Deseronto, Ontario.
Aerial photograph of Camp Mohawk, one of the Royal Flying Corps' pilot training camps near Deseronto, Ontario.
Collection comprises photographs of the two First World War Royal Flying Corps training camps at Deseronto, Ontario and notes for an unpublished book, Wings Over Deseronto, on the history of the camps. Camp Mohawk and Camp Rathbun were in operation between May 1917 and November 1918, training men to be pilots for the Western Front. The photographs in this collection are originals and reproductions depicting the aircraft, staff and cadets of the Royal Flying Corps, principally in the Deseronto camps, but also at Camps Borden and Leaside (Ontario) and Camp Taliaferro, in Fort Worth, Texas.
Smith, James AllanDraft chapters for an unpublished book, <em>Wings over Deseronto</em>.
Photographs of the Royal Flying Corps training camps, principally Camps Mohawk and Rathbun, near Deseronto, but also of Camps Leaside and Borden.
Photograph of the exterior of the building used as a hospital during the First World War for airmen injured during training at Camps Rathbun and Mohawk. The house was on Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario and had formerly been the home of <a href="http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?BioId=41130&query=" rel="nofollow">Edward Wilkes Rathbun (1842-1903)</a>. A view of the rear of the house can be seen in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserontoarchives/4904608991/">2010.15 (6b)</a>.
Photograph showing a group of men with a SPAD 13 aircraft in front of a hangar at Camp Rathbun, one of the Royal Flying Corps' training camps near Deseronto, Ontario.