Lot 53
AVIATION INTEREST
an interesting collection of items relating to Captain William Frederick James Harvey DFC & BAR, MC, MBE (1897-1972), to include part of a Bristol Fighter propeller mounted with a barometer (H O Quinn, London), a Royal Flying Corp flying helmet and photograph of Captain Harvey, and a photocopied copy of the typescript of Pi in the Sky, A History of No 22 Squadron Royal Flying Corps & RAF in the War of 1914-1918 by W F J Harvey MBE, DFC, TD.
*Captain Harvey served with the Signal Company of the Royal Engineers (TA) until he transferred to the RFC in 1916. In December 1917 he was posted as a pilot to 22 Squadron, flying Bristol Fighters. In 1918 he was promoted to Captain and took command of 'B' flight, he and his observers accounting for no less than 26 aircraft and balloons. He was awarded the RAF's first DFC and Bar to this. After the War he wrote many magazine articles for Air Pictorial and wrote a history of his old Squadron.
