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COLOGNE AIRMAIL [Main]
Some of the squadron's Airco DH9 aircraft are wheeled out of their hangars at Hawkinge aerodrome near Lympne in Kent. A mail truck arrives with sacks of mail for Cologne, and these are piled into the rear gunner's seat of each aircraft. The planes take off, one of them acting as a camera plane, and fly out over Kent, passing a speeding train, before crossing the English Channel. They fly over the …
Subject
- EFG1914
- Royal Air Force, Sqdn 18
- aircraft, British - combat: De Havilland DH9 (Airco)
- communications, British air - postal: [+]
- communications, British military - postal
- buildings, German - religious: cathedral
- First World War, Armistice & 5/1919=8/1919
- Hawkinge, Kent, England, UK
- Germany & Merheim, North Rhine Westphalia
- Germany & Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia <cathedral>
- World War I
- World War I
Type of item
- Film
- motion pictures (visual works)
Subject
- EFG1914
- Royal Air Force, Sqdn 18
- aircraft, British - combat: De Havilland DH9 (Airco)
- communications, British air - postal: [+]
- communications, British military - postal
- buildings, German - religious: cathedral
- First World War, Armistice & 5/1919=8/1919
- Hawkinge, Kent, England, UK
- Germany & Merheim, North Rhine Westphalia
- Germany & Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia <cathedral>
- World War I
- World War I
Type of item
- Film
- motion pictures (visual works)
Providing institution
Aggregator
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Rights
- Imperial War Museums
Creation date
- 1919
- 1919
Places
- Hawkinge, Kent, England, UK
- Germany & Merheim, North Rhine Westphalia
- Germany & Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia <cathedral>
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- Germany
- England
- United Kingdom
- Belgium
- Kalk
- Hawkinge
- Lympne Airport
- English Channel
- Cologne Cathedral
Provenance
- Imperial War Museums
Identifier
- IWM_877
- IWM_877
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Year
- 1919
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-03-31T08:55:30.941Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T12:49:15.528Z