Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men (103 page)
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Authors: Peter Fitzsimons
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Kingsford Smith, Charles, letter to parents in Sydney, sent from France, 14 July 1917, Ellison Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra.
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Thomas, Lowell,
Sir Hubert Wilkins: His World of Adventure
, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1961, p. 94f.
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ibid., p. 86.
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Nasht, Simon,
The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins—Australia’s Unknown Hero
, Hachette Livre Australia/Hodder, Australia, 2007, p. 57.
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ibid., p. 61.
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Sufrin, Mark,
The Brave Men: Twelve Portraits of Courage
, Platt & Munk, New York, 1967, p. 233.
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ibid., p. 242.
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Kingsford Smith, Charles, letter to parents in Sydney, sent from France, 10 August 1917, Ellison Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra.
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Stannage, John,
High Adventure
, MacDonald, Christchurch, 1944, pp. 79–83.
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Stannage, John,
Smithy
, Oxford University Press, London, 1950, p. 7.
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Kingsford Smith’s own reckoning, in a letter to parents, was that he had killed a few dozen.
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Stannage,
High Adventure
, op. cit., p. 83.
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Elliott, Brian A.,
Blériot: Herald of an Age
, Tempus Publishing, Gloucestershire, 2000, p. 208.
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Pound, Reginald and Harmsworth, Geoffrey,
Northcliffe
, Cassell, London, 1959, p. 467.
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Interview with John Ulm, Australia, May 2008.
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Yeates, V.M.,
Winged Victory (Echoes of War)
, Buchan & Enright, London, 1985, p. 217.
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Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles,
My Flying Life: An Authentic Biography Prepared under the Personal Supervision of and from the Diaries and Papers of the Late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith,
Andrew Melrose, London, 1937, p. 16.
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Ellison, Norman,
Flying Matilda: Early Days in Australian Aviation
, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1957.
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Mackersey, Ian,
Smithy: The Life of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
, Little, Brown, London, 1999, p. 34.
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Guttman, Jon,
Sopwith Camel vs Fokker Dr I: Western Front 1917–18
, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2008, p. 17.
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Ellison, op. cit., p. 237.
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Davis, Pedr,
Charles Kingsford Smith: Smithy, The World’s Greatest Aviator
, Lansdowne Press, Sydney, 1985, p. 26.
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Mackersey, op. cit., p. 35.
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FitzSimons, Peter, ‘Being Mike Carlton’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 8 January 2000.
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Wixted, Edward P.,
The Life and Times of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith: An Illustrated Chronology
, private source, Queensland, 1996, p. 16.
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Kilduff, Peter,
Richthofen: Beyond the Legend of the Red Baron
, Arms & Armour Press, London, 1999, p. 174.
29
Wohl, Robert,
A Passion for Wings: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1908-1918
, Yale University Press, New Haven/London, 1994, p. 228.
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Ellison, op. cit., p. 239.
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ibid.
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Aviation Magazine
, 12 June 2006.
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Kilduff, op. cit., p. 239.
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ibid., p. 203.
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‘Diggers’ Red Baron Blue’,
Daily Telegraph
(Sydney), 26 March 2007.
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Day, Mark, ‘Unsung No 1 with a Bullet’,
Australian
, 11 April 2007.
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Younger, James (director),
Unsolved History: Death of the Red Baron
, Termite Art Productions, USA, 2002.
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This anecdote comes from the man I consider Kingsford Smith’s principal biographer, Ian Mackersey, who in the 1990s was able to track down one of the last survivors from that whole era—James Cross—who told him that story when he was ninety-three. Mackersey, op. cit., p. 37.
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ibid.
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Joy, William,
The Aviators
, Shakespeare Head Press, Sydney, 1971, p. 28.
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Lawrence, T.E.,
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1979, p. 639.
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ibid.
Chapter 6: Après la Guerre
1
Wohl, Robert,
A Passion for Wings: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1908-1918
, Yale University Press, New Haven/London, 1994, p. 1.
2
Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles,
My Flying Life: An Authentic Biography Prepared under the Personal Supervision of and from the Diaries and Papers of the Late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith,
Andrew Melrose, London, 1937.
3
‘Gaiety on the Boulevards’,
The Times
, 12 November 1918.
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‘We Want King George’,
The Times
, 12 November 1918.
5
Ellison, Norman,
Flying Matilda: Early Days in Australian Aviation
, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1957, p. 244.
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ibid.
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Kingsford Smith, Charles, letter to parents, sent from the RAF Station in Eastchurch, Kent, 12 January 1919, Ellison Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra.
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Hughes, Aneurin,
Billy Hughes: Prime Minister and Controversial Founding Father of the Australian Labor Party
, John Wiley & Sons, Brisbane, 2005, p. 77.
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Hughes, William, cable to Australian Cabinet, sent from Paris, 18 February 1919, National Library of Australia, Canberra.
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New York Times
, 1919.
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Kingsford Smith, Charles, letter to parents in Sydney, sent from Hitchin, 17 April 1919, Ellison Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra.
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Fokker, Anthony,
Flying Dutchman
, George Routledge & Sons, London, 1932, p. 229f.
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ibid., p. 241.
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Kingsford Smith, Charles, letter to parents in Sydney, May 1919, Ellison Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra.
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Blackmore, L.K.,
Hawker: A Biography of Harry Hawker
, Airlife, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 160.
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‘Hold Thanksgiving Services at Hawker’s Old Home’,
The Times
, 27 May 1919.
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‘Hawker Saved—A Mid-Atlantic Rescue’,
The Times
, 26 May 1919.
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‘Mr Hawker’s Own Story—Why the Machine Came Down’,
The Times
, 27 May 1919.
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‘Hawker Saved—A Mid-Atlantic Rescue’,
The Times
, 26 May 1919.
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‘Mr Hawker’s Own Story—Why the Machine Came Down’,
The Times,
27 May 1919.
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Blackmore, op. cit., p. 25.
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‘London Gives Airmen an Uproarious Welcome’,
New York Times
, 28 May 1919.
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Hawker, Muriel,
H.G. Hawker, Airman: His Life and Work,
Hutchinson & Co., London, 1922, p. 266.
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‘A Great Welcome to the Airmen, Mobbed by Cheering Crowds, Royal Reception To-Day’,
The Times
, 28 May 1919.
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ibid.
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ibid.
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‘London Gives Airmen an Uproarious Welcome: Ovation all the Way from the North, Huge Crowds Acclaimed Them, Acclaimed by Australians’,
New York Times
, 28 May 1919.
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Williams, Sir Richard,
These Are Facts: The Autobiography of Air Marshall Sir Richard Williams
, Australian War Memorial and the Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1977, p. 114f.
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Gall, Jennifer,
From Bullocks to Boeings: An Illustrated History of Sydney Airport
, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1986, p. 9.
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Ellison, op. cit., p. 25.
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Gall, op. cit., p. 11.
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Fysh, Sir Hudson,
Qantas Rising: The Autobiography of the Flying Fysh
, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1966, p. 68.
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ibid., p. 52.
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‘Australian Flight, Captain Wilkins Leaves’,
Daily Telegraph
, 24 November 1919.
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Thomas, Lowell,
Sir Hubert Wilkins: His World of Adventure
, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1961, p. 114.
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‘“Kangaroo” Farewell’,
Daily Telegraph
, 25 November 1919.
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Kingsford Smith, Elsie, letter to her parents, sent from Menlo Park, California, 10 November 1919, Ellison Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hawker
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Fysh, op. cit., p. 69.
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Haynes, Jim and Dellit, Jillian,
Great Australian Aviation Stories: Characters, Pioneers, Triumphs, Tragedies and Near Misses
, ABC Books, Sydney, 2006, p. 124.
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Eustis, Nelson
, Australia’s Greatest Air Race: England—Australia 1919
, Rigby, Adelaide, 1977, p. 42.
