"April Morning France 1918" by Frank Wootton.

In April 1918, following the suggestion of Lieutenant General Jan Smuts' Cabinet Committee, the British Government merged the Royal Flying Corps with the Royal Naval Air Service to create the first independent air force in the world, the Royal Air Force – or RAF. Major General Sir Hugh Trenchard became the first commander of the joint service. Two of the gentlemen depicted in the Crossley staff car are Sir Hugh Trenchard and General Smuts. The aircraft are a Sopwith Camel and, beyond, several S.E. 5a's, the two most successful British fighter aircraft of WWI. Above them, returning from a night raid, fly two Handley Page 0/400 heavy bombers of the RAF.

Each print is signed by three of the modern RAF's highest ranking officers: Sir Peter Harding GCB, DSc, FRAeS, CBIM, Marshal of the Royal Air Force and Chief of the Defence Staff; Sir Michael Graydon GCB, CBE, ADC, FRAeS, Air Chief Marshal and Chief of the Air Staff and Sir John Thomson KCB, CBE, AFC - Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Strike Command.

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Image size 760 x 510mm. Unmounted, price £140 plus post and packing.

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