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CA ON00397 2001.11-14, 16-33 · Collection · 1917-1918, [ca. 1983]

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photographs of the two First World War Royal Flying Corps training camps at Deseronto, Ontario and notes for an unpublished book, Wings Over Deseronto, on the history of the camps.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 Allan
Rathbun Hospital
CA ON00397 2001.11-14, 16-33-Allan Smith 7 · Item · 1917-1918
Part of J. Allan Smith Royal Flying Corps Training Camps Collection

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>.