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Royal Flying Corps

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1916–1917Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1916

Trafford Leigh-MalloryJanuary 1916

Warfare / World War, 1st

Joins the Royal Flying Corps in January 1916 and is accepted for pilot training

1917

Julian Hedworth George Byng Vimy, 1st20 November 1917

Cambrai · Warfare / World War, 1st

launched at dawn with all available tanks advancing across a 10 km front, 476 tanks are accompanied by six infantry and two cavalry divisions (to exploit any breakthrough), plus 1,000 guns & 14 newly formed squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps

Names involved

Julian Hedworth George Byng Vimy, 1stTrafford Leigh-Mallory

Provenance

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