Observer Collection (page 2)

Royal Aircraft Factory FE 2d two seater plane, with pilot, observer and reconnaissance camera. It helped end the scourge of the notorious Fokker Eindecker. Date: circa 1915-1917

Morane-Saulnier BB two-seat biplane
Morane-Saulnier BB two-seat reconnaissance and escort fighter biplane with two observer-operated Lewis guns. Date: circa 1915-1916

German Type AE observation balloon, copied from a French model, which was used extensively from early summer 1916 onwards. It was capable of day and night operation

Breguet Bre 14B. 2 bomber of Escadrille BR 111
Breguet Bre 14B.2 bomber belonging to Escadrille BR 111 in low-level flight, with white swan symbol on its side. Date: circa 1916-1918

WW2 birthday card, dog and cats
WW2 pop-up birthday card, may Good Luck spot you! A spotted dog and two black cats watch the sky with binoculars, as fire watchers and aircraft spotters. Date: circa 1942

They ve evidently seen me by Bruce Bairnsfather
They ve evidently seen me. A British soldier, precariously peering out the top of a chimney pot, binoculars in hand, is narrowly missed by an enemy shell

Zeppelin observation car by G. H. Davis, WW1
Cut-away illustration of an observation car which had been attached to a Zeppelin but cast off and picked up over East Anglia allowing the British, and artist, G. H

RFC after reconnaissance work on Western Front, WW1
The pilot and observer of a Royal Flying Corps aeroplane are helped back to their rest quarters after returning from a reconnaissance mission over the Western Front

James Garvin
James Louis Garvin (1868 - 1947), influential journalist and writer, editor of the Observer from 1908 to 1947 and of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Date: 1914

A Balancing Feat over the German lines, WW1 aviation
Gymnastics in the air from the crew of a British plane over the German lines in 1917. Flying low, the plane was subjected to an exceptionally heavy cannonade until a shell, hitting the machine

A hand-made wooden model of a WWI biplane
A hand-made wooden model of a First World War bi-plane with a metal undercarriage. Together with wooden replicas of its pilot and observer. Trench Art

WWI propeller with inscribed silver plaque
WW1 propeller with inscribed silver plaque, dated 8th June 1916. In memory of a forced landing in a cornfield at Avesnes. Observer - 2nd Ltn. J. Heyward and Pilot - 2nd Ltn. F. Gartside-Tippinge

Royal Flying Corps airmen attack a German monoplane, 1914
British army airmen of the Royal Flying Corps attacking a German monoplane in 1914. The pilot is seated behind the observer in the British biplane; the observer repels attack and fires on the enemy

British balloon observer on the Western Front
The observer stands with telephone receiver over his head; a mouthpiece hangs in front of him. Date: 1916

Observation kite-balloon, WW1
A kite-balloon in use for observation purposes during a coast bombardment. The balloon is towed by a vessel which is specially adapted for carrying it (inflated) on deck

RAF personnel marking German positions, WW1
RAF pilots and observers marking German positions in preparation for a raid, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1918

RAF observer with wireless transmitter, WW1
An RAF observer with a wireless transmitter which allows him to keep in touch with British guns, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1918

Pilot and observer about to set out, Western Front, WW1
A British pilot and his observer getting instructions through their CO via photographs and maps before setting out for the German lines on the Western Front in France during World War One

Men in basket of observation balloon, WW1
Two men with telephones and maps in the basket of an RFA observation balloon on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

French soldiers in trench, Vailly, France, WW1
French soldiers in a trench near Vailly-sur-Aisne, northern France, during the First World War. Painted by a member of the French Foreign Legion. Date: March 1915

Hawker High Speed Fury Fighter Plane
The Hawker Fury was a British Biplane Fighter aircraft used by the RAF in the1930s. The specific High Speed Fury pictured on this promotional card was an experimental prototype which was subsequently

Instruments of NLL automatic observer

The crew during the flight test of an Avro Lancaster. From left: Donald Wade, observer; H. Barnes, flight engineer; Bill Thorn, pilot, S. Gleave, second pilot and Roy Chadwick, chief designer

Observer with ammunition for Lewis gun, WW1
An observer taking on board his 97 shot magazine, containing ammunition for his Lewis gun, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Austrian artillery observer in the Alps, WW1
An Austrian artillery observer in the Alps during the First World War. He is looking through a telescope on a tripod outside a stone-built shelter. Date: 1914-1918

69th Squadron AFC setting out for night bombing, WW1
The crew of the 69th Squadron AFC (Australian Flying Corps) setting out in their RE8 biplane for night bombing from their hangar at Savy, northern France, during the First World War

Observer Corps Centre, World War II

Aircraft Observer Post, WWII
Aircraft Observer Post, during World War II. Two observers with direction and height finders ready to broadcast directions to head observer command

Observer asleep on a bed in Base Room
Photograph of an observer asleep on a bed in " Base Room", during investigations at Borley Rectory, 21 November 1937. HPG/1/3/7 ()"

They ve Evidently Seem Me by Bruce Bairnsfather
A later version of a " Fragment from France" drawn by the famous World War One cartoonist, Bruce Bairnsfather for the Bystander magazine

British Observation Post; Second World War, 1940
Drawing showing an advanced Observation Post in the British sector of the Maginot line, March 1940. This observer, using a telescope

A French look-out
A French artillery observer on the look-out up a tree

James Louis Garvin / Vf 11
JAMES LOUIS GARVIN English journalist; Editor of the Observer, the Pall Mall Gazette and the Encyclopaedia Britannica

Caudron G-3 Biplane
Caudron G-3, French two seat fighter of somewhat antiquated design : note the cut-out in the upper wing where the observer can stand to fire his machine-gun

Road Traffic Control
Traffic control from the air : the observer tells the police by radio-telephone the state of traffic, which can then be halted or diverted in case of accident or congestion

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