Title
Group photograph including James Richard Hampson in the uniform of the Royal Flying Corps
Reference
YA1996.2839/6
Production date
1910 - 1916
Scope and Content
Copy photograph print including James Richard Hampson in the uniform of the Royal Flying Corps
Physical description
Good
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
Science and Industry Museum
Associated people and organisations
- Hampson, James RichardBiographyBiography
Enlisted in the 1/4th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in February 1909 and discharged from the regiment, with the rank of Company Sergeant Major, on the 21st February 1916. He then went on to enlist with the Royal Flying Corps in May 1916 and served with the Corps as a Rigger until 1919.
During the Second World War he was a Lieutenant in the Home Guard.
- Royal Flying CorpsBiographyBiography
Established in 1912 as the air arm of the British Army, merging with the Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 to become the Royal Air Force.
The Royal Flying Corp's Training Division School of Photography was at Farnborough, Hampshire.
Subject
Conditions governing access
Open access.
Conditions governing Reproduction
Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions.
