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Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik
Thanks Clint
Hilsea....oh well....I would never have guessed that by myself.....  Seems to be a part of Portsmouth actually (I looked it up), so I buy that!
Since No 153 after all was right there, my guess is we are one step ahead of the seller.... 
Cheers
Stig |
Gentlemen, Ahem.
You will find a similar "uncropped" photograph in the late Jack Bruce's, Britain's First Warplanes. The photo in Britain's First Warplanes has two additional personalities - one at each end (both excluded)!
The photo in B'sFW (p.5), has the following caption:
Officers of the Royal Naval Air Service at Hilsea at the time of the Royal Review of the Fleet, July 1914. At left (excluded) is FSL C. Draper; fourth, fifth and sixth from left are, respectively, Cdr. C. R. Sansom, Lt. R. L. G. Marix and Capt. I. T. Courtney RMLI. The aircraft is a Bristol T.B.8, either No. 43 or No. 153.
See:
Britain's First Warplanes A Pictorial Survey of the First 400 Naval and Military Aircraft.
Bruce, J. M.
Poole:Arms and Armour Press,1987.
p.5
Col.
PS. The book contains potted histories of both No. 43, and No. 153.