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Aircraft
Serial |
Type |
Aircraft
History |
A562 |
B.E.12a |
Built by Coventry
Ordnance Works,
Served with 4 Sqn AFC |
A566 |
B.E.12a |
Built by Coventry
Ordnance Works,
14 Sqn, RFC,
04/09/1917 To A
Flight, 1 Sqn, AFC,
20/09/1917 to Air Park. |
A575 |
B.E.12a |
Built by Coventry
Ordnance Works,
09/10/1917 To 1 Sqn,
AFC,
19/02/1918 To 142 Sqn, RFC. |
A6311 |
B.E.12a |
Serial
originally allocated for Be2e Series,
Daimler Built as B.E.12 and converted to
B.E.12a,
04/08/1917 to 1 Sqn, AFC ex
Air park,
28/09/1917 to 14 Sqn, RFC.
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A6321 |
B.E.12a |
Serial
originally allocated for Be2e Series,
Daimler Built as B.E.12 and converted to
B.E.12a,
22/05/1917 To C
Flight, 1 Sqn, AFC, ex Air
park,
17/07/1917 2/Lt
Claude Heny Vautin driven down and
captured,
Struck of charge.
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A6322 |
B.E.12a |
Serial
originally allocated for Be2e Series,
Daimler Built as B.E.12 and converted to
B.E.12a,
27/05/1917 To C
Flight, 1 Sqn, AFC, ex Air
park,
25/06/1917 2/Lt
Jack Stanley Brasell shot down near Tel el
Sheria,
05/07/1917 Struck
of charge.
'This officer left the
Aerodrome at Deir-el-Belah on 25.6.1917
escorting a reconnaissance machine and
flying a B.E 12a.
The reconnaissance was attacked by two
hostile scouts and during the engagement
2nd/Lieutenant Brasell's machine was
observed to go down in a steady spiral
behind the Enemy's lines. On 26.6.17 a
hostile Aeroplane dropped a message on the
Aerodrome at Deir-el-Belah stating that
2nd/Lieutenant Brasell had been shot down on
the 25.06.17 during an air battle, that he
had been hit in the head, and had died
immediately after landing his machine behind
the Enemy's lines. It was also stated that
he had been buried with Military honors that
day.'
See AWM
P07016.003
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A6323 |
B.E.12a |
Serial
originally allocated for Be2e Series,
Daimler Built as B.E.12 and converted to
B.E.12a,
02/07/1917 To C flight, 1 Sqn, AFC,
ex Air Park,
17/08/1918 To 14 Sqn, RFC. |
A6328 |
B.E.12a |
Serial
originally allocated for Be2e Series,
Daimler Built as B.E.12 and converted to
B.E.12a,
17/07/1917 To 1 Sqn, AFC ex Air Park,
21/02/1918 To 142 Sqn, RAF. |
A6329 |
B.E.12a |
Serial
originally allocated for Be2e Series,
Daimler Built as B.E.12 and converted to
B.E.12a,
19/07/1917 To 1 Sqn, AFC ex
Air Park,
24/02/1918 To 142 Sqn, RAF. |
A6338 |
B.E.12a |
Serial
originally allocated for Be2e Series,
Daimler Built as B.E.12 and converted to
B.E.12a,
29/09/1917 To 1 Sqn, AFC ex
Air Park,
05/12/1917 To Air Park. |
A6347 |
B.E.12a |
Serial
originally allocated for Be2e Series,
Daimler Built as B.E.12 and converted to
B.E.12a,
01/08/1917 To 1 Sqn, AFC ex
Air Park,
09/01/1918 To Air Park. |
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The
Author of this page is Brendan Cowan
& Mark Lax.
Sources:
Australian War Memorial, Australian
Military Aircraft 1909-1918, Keith Isaacs, AWM, Men
& Machines of the Australian Flying Corps 1914-1919,
Charles Schaedel, High Adventure, A.H.Cobby, British
Military Aircraft Serials 1911-1979, Bruce Robertson, One Airman's
War: Aircraft Mechanic Joe Bull's
Personal Diaries 1916-1919, Banner Books, Maryborough,
1997, Mark Lax.
Emails: Mark Lax
Updated
31 August 2014
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